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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"
The meaning of ANTEBELLUM is existing before a war; especially : existing before the American Civil War. How to use antebellum in a sentence.
adjective. of or during the period before a war, esp the American Civil War. the antebellum South. antebellum. A descriptive term for objects and institutions, especially houses, that originated three or four decades before the Civil War. Antebellum is Latin for “before the war.”.
ANTEBELLUM definition: 1. relating to the time before a war, especially the American Civil War: 2. relating to the time…. Learn more.
Use the adjective antebellum to describe something that happened before the American Civil War. You could talk about touring a historic antebellum plantation house in Georgia, for example. Officially, the word antebellum can describe the time just before any war, but it's usually used in reference to the American Civil War.
What does the word antebellum mean? There are three meanings listed in OED's entry for the word antebellum . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
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.
Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War. [From Latin ante bellum, before the war : ante, before; see ante- + bellum, war .] American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
