antebellum
Adjective
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Adjective
antebellum (not comparable)
- Of the time period prior to a war.
- A renewed sense of national pride arose in Hitler's antebellum Germany.
- In the United States of America, of the period prior to the American Civil War, especially in reference to the culture of the southern states.
- Slavery was an accepted part of antebellum plantation life.
- (of a time prior to war) postbellum
- French: d'avant-guerre
- German: Vorkriegszeit, Vorkriegs-
- Italian: anteguerra, prebellico
- Portuguese: pré-guerra, pré-bélico
- Russian: довое́нный
- Spanish: prebélico
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