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Antebellum - What does it mean?

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antebellum

English

Adjective

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  • 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.

    Antonyms

    * (of a time prior to war) postbellum

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