Meaning

2 senses
  1. (not comparable)Of the time period prior to a war.

    A renewed sense of national pride arose in Hitler's antebellum Germany.

    Vorkriegszeit, Vorkriegs-

    довое́нныйdovojénnyj

    belonging to a period before a war especially the American Civil War

  2. Of the time period prior to a war.

    (US, not comparable)Of the period prior to the American Civil War, especially in reference to the culture of the southern states.

    See also: Antebellum South

    Slavery was an accepted part of antebellum plantation life.

Translations

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of a period of time prior to a war:

Origin

Borrowed from Latin ante bellum (literally “before the war”).

Borrowed from Latin ante bellum (literally “before the war”).

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