For most Europeans, a postbellum world had seemed the self-evident future, says Finland’s president, Sauli Niinistö.
Source: wiktionary
Postbellum
Synonyms for "postbellum" (3 found)
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Closest matches (1)
Adjective(1 words)
Strong matches (1)
Related words (1)
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Antonyms
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2 entriesTranslations
21 translations across 20 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- следвоенен adj (of the period following a war)
Catalan
1 entries- postguerra adj (of the period following a war)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 戰後的 /战后的 adj (of the period following a war)
Czech
1 entries- poválečný adj (of the period following a war)
Dutch
1 entries- naoorlogs adj (of the period following a war)
Estonian
1 entries- sõjajärgne adj (of the period following a war)
Finnish
1 entries- sodanjälkeinen adj (of the period following a war)
French
1 entries- d’après-guerre adj (of the period following a war)
German
1 entries- Nachkriegszeit adj (of the period following a war)
Greek
1 entries- μεταπολεμικός adj (of the period following a war)
Italian
1 entries- postbellico adj (of the period following a war)
Japanese
1 entries- 戦後の adj (of the period following a war)
Korean
1 entries- 전후의 adj (of the period following a war)
Polish
1 entries- powojenny adj (of the period following a war)
Portuguese
2 entries- após-guerra adj (of the period following a war)
- pós-guerra adj (of the period following a war)
Romanian
1 entries- postbelic adj (of the period following a war)
Russian
1 entries- послевое́нный adj (of the period following a war)
Spanish
1 entries- de posguerra adj (of the period following a war)
Swedish
1 entries- efterkrigs adj (of the period following a war)
Turkish
1 entries- savaş sonrası adj (of the period following a war)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
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.
Source: wiktionary
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