postbellum

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Of the period following a war. not-comparable
    — For most Europeans, a postbellum world had seemed the self-evident future, says Finland’s president, Sauli Niinistö.
  2. Of the period following a war.; Of the period following the American Civil War, especially used in reference to the South. US,not-comparable
    — 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.

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post-bellum alternative

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