Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

postbellum

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.32 in modern English

Syllables: post-bel-lum
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of the period following a war.

adj

Of the period following a war.

American usage

Example Sentences

"For most Europeans, a postbellum world had seemed the self-evident future, says Finland’s president, Sauli Niinistö."
"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."

Etymology

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

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: post bellum

Usage

American usage

Inflected Forms

post-bellum (alternative)

Synonyms

post-war

Antonyms

antebellum pre-war

Rhymes With

antebellum cerebellum vellum status quo ante bellum flagellum labellum scutellum flabellum clitellum capitellum haustellum vestibulocerebellum

Questions

What does postbellum mean?: Of the period following a war.
Where does postbellum come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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