postexilic in American English
(ˌpousteɡˈzɪlɪk, -ekˈsɪl-)
adjectivebeing or occurring subsequent to the exile of the Jews in Babylonia 597–538 b.c.
Also: postexilian Word origin
[1870–75;
post- +
exilic]This word is first recorded in the period 1870–75. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Mafia, Victorian, billing, fifth wheel, giveawaypost- is a prefix, meaning “behind,” “after,” “later,” “subsequent to,” “posterior to,”occurring originally in loanwords from Latin (postscript), but now used freely in the formation of compound words (post-Elizabethan; postfix; postgraduate; postorbital)