Usually means: Period before the American Civil War.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. antebellum: Merriam-Webster
  2. antebellum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. antebellum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. antebellum: Collins English Dictionary
  5. antebellum: Vocabulary.com
  6. Antebellum, antebellum: Wordnik
  7. antebellum: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. antebellum: Wiktionary
  9. antebellum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. antebellum: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. antebellum: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. antebellum: Dictionary.com
  13. Antebellum (disambiguation), Antebellum (film), Antebellum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. antebellum: Rhymezone
  15. antebellum: FreeDictionary.org
  16. antebellum: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. antebellum: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. antebellum: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  19. antebellum: Merriam-Webster

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Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. antebellum: A Word A Day
  2. antebellum: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. antebellum: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Of the time period prior to a war.
▸ adjective:  (US) Of the period prior to the American Civil War, especially in reference to the culture of the southern states.

Similar:
nonmodern, prebellum, postbellum, pre-war, prewar, prewartime, preslavery, precolonial, preinvasion, preimperial, more...

Opposite:
postbellum

Types:
pre-Civil War, more...

Phrases:
Lady Antebellum, Antebellum South, Antebellum architecture, Cuisine of Antebellum America, opposite of antebellum, more...

Adjectives:
late, colonial, rural, early, southern, already, american

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    ivory,     cream,     sepia,     sage,     dusty rose, more...



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Similar:
nonmodern, prebellum, postbellum, pre-war, prewar, prewartime, preslavery, precolonial, preinvasion, preimperial, more...

Opposite:
postbellum

Types:
pre-Civil War, more...

Phrases:
Lady Antebellum, Antebellum South, Antebellum architecture, Cuisine of Antebellum America, opposite of antebellum, more...

Adjectives:
late, colonial, rural, early, southern, already, american

Colors:
    ivory,     cream,     sepia,     sage,     dusty rose, more...



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