1.
during the war; in wartime
The period during which a war is being fought. In Japanese contexts most often refers to World War II (specifically the wartime years from the late 1930s to 1945), but can also describe any ongoing war.
戦時中は食料が足りなかった。
Food was in short supply during the war.
祖母は戦時中の思い出をよく話してくれた。
My grandmother often told me about her memories from the war years.
戦時中は言論の自由が厳しく制限されていた。
During the war, freedom of speech was severely restricted.
戦時 (wartime) + 中 (during, in the middle of). Functions as a temporal noun, often used adverbially as 戦時中に.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- 戦時中の生活: life during the war
- 戦時中の記憶: memories of the war
- 戦時中に生まれる: to be born during the war
- 戦時中下で: under wartime conditions
SIMILAR WORDS:
- 戦中: wartime — shorter literary variant with the same meaning
- 戦前: prewar — refers to the period before the war
- 戦後: postwar — refers to the period after the war