antebellumadjective [ before noun ]
uk/ˌæn.tiˈbel.əm/us/ˌæn.t̬əˈbel.əm/mainly USrelating to the time before a war, especially the American Civil War:
Many homes and churches of the antebellum South can still be visited today.
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War
- battle-scarred
- bellicose
- belligerent
- biological warfare
- campaign
- concord
- crusade
- hostile
- militarist
- pacific
- peacekeeping
- phoney war
- pro-war
- scorched-earth policy
- SDI
- the Second World War
- war clouds are gathering idiom
- war-torn
- warfare
- warlike
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