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What is another word for antebellum?

Pronunciation: [ˌantɪbˈɛləm] (IPA)

Antebellum refers to the period preceding a war, specifically the American Civil War. Synonyms for antebellum include prewar, pre-Civil War, antecedent, former, earlier, preceding, pre-existing, primordial, and prehistorical. The word antebellum pertains to a particular time in history when slavery and various other controversial issues plagued the United States. The world has evolved much since then, and it is important to have alternate terms to understand the context of American history. By using synonyms for antebellum, we can better understand and discuss historical events and the impacts they had on modern society.
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What are the hypernyms for Antebellum?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

  • Other hypernyms:

    antiquity, era, historic period, historical period, bygone era, former era, historic era, long past era, past era, pre-Civil War era, previous era.

What are the opposite words for antebellum?

Antebellum refers to the period before the American Civil War. However, its antonyms depend on the context in which it is used. For instance, if antebellum is used to refer to the political situation during the slavery period, then its antonyms could be post-war, reconstruction, or emancipation, which all suggest a time when slavery was abolished, and African Americans were granted equal rights. Alternatively, if antebellum is used to refer to the social and cultural landscape of the pre-civil war era, its antonyms could be contemporary, modern or present-day. Antebellum architecture could have antonyms such as contemporary, futuristic, or avant-garde.

What are the antonyms for Antebellum?

  • adj.

    • noun

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Usage examples for Antebellum

If Republicans stand for crude force, and Democrats for antebellum sentimentality, both are doomed together.
"Psycho-Phone Messages"
Francis Grierson
It is an unfamiliar, gloomy, mysterious place, is war-time Venice, but in certain respects I liked it better than the commercialized city of antebellum days.
"Italy at War and the Allies in the West"
E. Alexander Powell
In Russia over a third of the bridegrooms and over half the brides are under twenty; the same was true of the antebellum Negroes.
"The Souls of Black Folk"
W. E. B. Du Bois

Famous quotes with Antebellum

  • The President's proclamation is intended to give heart to, and rightly does give heart to, the Right to Life movement. It does so by identifying the right to life of the unborn with the first of the rights mentioned in the Declaration. It does so as the free soil movement and the Republican party, in the antebellum United States, had identified the right to liberty in the Declaration as the principled ground of its opposition to slavery. Then it was understood that the principle of equal rights for all in the Declaration of Independence was, as Lincoln said it was, "the apple of gold in the picture of silver" that gave life and meaning to the Constitution. Then it was understood that the original intent of those who framed and those who ratified the Constitution was to "secure these rights," the rights that defined the moral order which the legal order was to implement.
    Harry V. Jaffa
  • And comparing what happened in England—after all, in England the Parliament in Westminster was making laws for the West Indies. The West Indians didn't have any representation in the Parliament. The laws were made for them, and they had to go along with it. There was no such power within the Federal government to interfere with slavery, except by limiting the expansion of slavery. And it was Lincoln’s belief—and I think the best economic analysis that we have of the American economy in the antebellum United States indicates—that if the expansion of slavery had been ended, and if it was no longer possible for surplus slaves to be sold from the old states to new territories, that the pressure within the states to adopt programs of emancipation would become great enough to do that.
    Harry V. Jaffa
  • The party system that is developing here in Canada is a party system that replicates the antebellum period, the pre-Civil War period of the United States... [T]he dynamics, the political and partisan dynamics of this, are remarkably similar.
    Stephen Harper

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