post-bellum
/ˈbɛləm
/adjective
Occurring or existing after a war, in particular the American Civil War: that post-bellum decade supposedly free black slaves in the post-bellum southern states...
- The post-bellum waves of immigration indicated to observant Americans that the Two Nations were no longer an old-world phenomenon, but a fact of American urban life.
- As an African American diarist in antebellum and post-bellum America, she was a privileged individual by birth and endowment.
- That alone should give anyone of either party pause before tacitly endorsing an attack on the post-bellum Reconstruction policies of the Republican party.
Origin
Late 19th century: from Latin post 'after' + bellum 'war'.
- without recourse
- without result
- without tears
- with pleasure
- with prejudice
- with-profits
- withstand
- withstander
- with that
- with the best of them
- with the best will in the world
- with the exception of
- with the pedal to the metal
- with the sun
- (with) tongue in cheek
- withy
- with young
- witless
- witlessly
- witlessness
- witling
- witloof
- witness
- witness box
- witness mark