Postbellum

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of the period following a war. not-comparable

    "For most Europeans, a postbellum world had seemed the self-evident future, says Finland’s president, Sauli Niinistö."

  2. 2
    Of the period following a war.; Of the period following the American Civil War, especially used in reference to the South. US, not-comparable

    "Midway through Donald McCaig’s unexpectedly diverting novel, “Rhett Butler’s People,” a black man about to be lynched in the post-bellum South asks Rhett to please shoot him dead before the mob breaks into the jail and does worse."

Etymology

From Latin post bellum (literally “after the war”).

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