antebellum

[ an-tee-bel-uhm ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

before or existing before a war, especially the American Civil War; prewar:
the antebellum plantations of Georgia.

antebellum

/ ˌæntɪˈbɛləm /

of or during the period before a war, esp the American Civil War
the antebellum South

antebellum

A descriptive term for objects and institutions, especially houses, that originated three or four decades before the Civil War . Antebellum is Latin for “before the war.”

First recorded in 1860–65, antebellum is from Latin ante bellum “before the war”

Latin ante bellum, literally: before the war

I know Tom Woods is an intriguing writer, and I too love my liberty, but this is no longer the antebellum era.

It showed how the old guard is trying to guide the Treasury secretary and protect the status quo antebellum as much as possible.

That was in the antebellum days, before men realized they couldn't oppress their fellows with impunity.

Certainly Simms seems to have been the best imaginative writer the antebellum South produced.

As the antebellum period of the fifties came on these questions loomed larger in the public view.

Here the author shows that Astoria was included in the antebellum conditions of the Treaty of Ghent.

The antebellum state-bank regulations were intended to secure the safety of the bank note.

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