postbellum

English

Alternative forms

• post-bellum

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛləm

Adjective

postbellum (not comparable)

1. Of the period following a war.
   • 2023 September 30, Patrick Wintour, quoting Sauli Niinistö, “‘No turning back’: how the Ukraine war has profoundly changed the EU”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

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

2. (US) Of the period following the American Civil War, especially used in reference to the South.
   • 2007 November 4, Stephen L. Carter, “Almost a Gentleman”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     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.

Synonyms

• post-war

Antonyms

• antebellum
• pre-war

Translations

of the period following a war

• Bulgarian: следвоенен (sledvoenen)
• Catalan: postguerra
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 戰後的／战后的

• Czech: poválečný (cs)
• Dutch: naoorlogs (nl)
• Estonian: sõjajärgne
• Finnish: sodanjälkeinen
• French: d’après-guerre
• German: Nachkriegszeit (de)
• Greek: μεταπολεμικός (el) (metapolemikós)
• Italian: postbellico (it)
• Japanese: 戦後の
• Korean: 전후의 (jeonhuui)
• Polish: powojenny (pl)
• Portuguese: pós-guerra, após-guerra
• Romanian: postbelic (ro)
• Russian: послевое́нный (ru) (poslevojénnyj)
• Spanish: de posguerra
• Swedish: efterkrigs-
• Turkish: savaş sonrası