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- DictionaryAn·te·bel·lum/ˌan(t)əˈbeləm/
adjective
- 1. occurring or existing before a particular war, especially the American Civil War: "the conventions of the antebellum South"
relating to the time before a war, especially the American Civil War: Many homes and churches of the antebellum South can still be visited today. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. War. anti-militarism. asymmetric warfare. battle-scarred. bellicose. bellicosity.
This word comes from the Latin phrase ante bellum, literally "before the war." Definitions of antebellum. adjective. belonging to a period before a war especially the American Civil War. synonyms: nonmodern.
antebellum. adjective. /ˌæntiˈbeləm/. /ˌæntiˈbeləm/. [only before noun] (formal) connected with the years before a war, especially the American Civil War. the laws of the antebellum American South. Culture. Oxford Collocations Dictionary.
antebellum /ˌæntɪ ˈ bɛləm/ adjective. Britannica Dictionary definition of ANTEBELLUM. always used before a noun formal. : occurring in the southern U.S. during the time before the American Civil War. the antebellum South. antebellum society/houses.
adjective. Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War. American Heritage. Before the war; specif., before the American Civil War. Webster's New World. Of the time period prior to a war. A renewed sense of national pride arose in Hitler's antebellum Germany. Wiktionary.
3 days ago · (ˌæntɪˈbɛləm ) adjective. of or during the period before a war, esp the American Civil War. the antebellum South. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Word origin. Latin ante bellum, literally: before the war. Word Frequency. antebellum in American English. (ˌæntiˈbɛləm ; ˌæntɪˈbɛləm ) US. adjective.
/ˌæn (t)əˈbɛləm/ an-tuh-BEL-uhm. See pronunciation. Where does the word antebellum come from? Earliest known use. 1800s. The earliest known use of the word antebellum is in the 1800s. OED's earliest evidence for antebellum is from 1801, in the Times (London). antebellum is a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin ante bellum. See etymology.
