# antebellum

Pronunciation: say "an-tee-BEL-um" /ˌæn.tiˈbɛl.əm/

## Adjective

1. Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American South before the American Civil War.
   - Simple: From before a war, especially in the southern United States before the American Civil War.
   - _The novel is set on an antebellum plantation outside Savannah._
   - _Historians have long debated how the cotton economy shaped antebellum Southern society._

## Origin

Borrowed from Latin ante bellum, literally "before the war".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/antebellum (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).