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antebellum

/ˌæn.tiˈbɛl.əm/

antebellum adjective: of the time period prior to a war.

Adjective

antebellum (not comparable)

  1. Of the time period prior to a war.
    • A renewed sense of national pride arose in Hitler's antebellum Germany.
    1. (US) Of the period prior to the American Civil War, especially in reference to the culture of the southern states.
      • See also: Antebellum South
      • Slavery was an accepted part of antebellum plantation life.

antebellum meaning in Tamil and Vietnamese

antebellum in Tamil

போருக்கு முந்தைய காலகட்டம்

antebellum in Vietnamese

of a period of time prior to a war
tiền chiến

Examples of antebellum in a sentence

  • This war we find to be a war of choice, not of necessity, and hence call for its immediate discontinuation and for the restoration of antebellum relations.
  • During the antebellum period women's day dresses had semilow décolletage and even lower for evening.
  • Not when you are baiting and switching down from a stately antebellum manse to a tenement crack house.

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Synonyms of antebellum

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Origin of antebellum

Borrowed from Latin ante bellum (literally “before the war”).

Phrases with antebellum

Words that rhyme with antebellum

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Questions about antebellum

What does antebellum mean?
Antebellum means of the time period prior to a war.
What is antebellum in Tamil?
Antebellum in Tamil is போருக்கு முந்தைய காலகட்டம். See Antebellum meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is antebellum?
Antebellum is an adjective.
How do you pronounce antebellum?
Antebellum is pronounced /ˌæn.tiˈbɛl.əm/.

Words near antebellum in the dictionary

  1. anteater-dick
  2. anteater-dicks
  3. anteaters
  4. anteating
  5. antebaptismal
  6. antebellum
  7. Antebellum South
  8. antebrachia
  9. antebrachial
  10. antebrachiocarpal
  11. antebrachium

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Adapted from Wiktionary: antebellum (page history and authors); antebellum (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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