Postbellum

Common synonyms include: post-war, posthumous, postprandial, postwar, postwar expansion, postwar history.

adj

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Definitions

Adjective

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
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."

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

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