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antebellum

English

Etymology

From the Latin ante bellum (literally before the war).

Adjective

antebellum (not comparable)

  1. Of the time period prior to a war.
  2. In the United States of America, of the period prior to the American Civil War, especially in reference to the culture of the southern states.
    • 2004, James M. Volo, Dorothy Denneen Volo, The Antebellum Period, Greenwood Publishing Group (?ISBN), page 115:
      There was no single characteristic house style during the antebellum period, but the elegant plantation homes built in the American South, with their central entrances, balconies, columns, and formal ballrooms, came closest to representing a discrete architectural style for the period.

Synonyms

  • pre-war

Antonyms

  • postbellum
  • post-war

Translations

Anagrams

  • unmeltable

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reconstruction

English

Etymology

re- +? construction

Noun

reconstruction (countable and uncountable, plural reconstructions)

  1. A thing that has been reconstructed or restored to an earlier state.
  2. The act of restoring something to an earlier state.
  3. A result of an attempt to understand in detail how a certain result or event occurred.

Hyponyms

  • type reconstruction (software)

Related terms

  • reconstruct

Translations


French

Pronunciation

Noun

reconstruction f (plural reconstructions)

  1. reconstruction

Further reading

  • “reconstruction” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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