postbellum
English
Alternative forms
- post-bellum
Etymology
Latin post bellum (literally “after the war”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛləm
Adjective
postbellum (not comparable)
- Of the period following a war.
- (US) Of the period following the American Civil War, especially used in reference to the South.
- 2007 November 4, Stephen L. Carter, “Almost a Gentleman”, in The New York Times, ISSN 0362-4331:
- Midway through Donald McCaig’s unexpectedly diverting novel, “Rhett Butler’s People,” a black man about to be lynched in the post-bellum South asks Rhett to please shoot him dead before the mob breaks into the jail and does worse.
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Synonyms
- post-war
Antonyms
- antebellum
- pre-war
Translations
of the period following a war
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