postbellum

• post-bellum

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

• Rhymes: -ɛləm

postbellum (not comparable)

1. Of the period following a war.
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, ISSN 0362-4331:

     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.

• post-war

• antebellum
• pre-war