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postbellum

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Of the period following a war.
    not-comparable
  2. Of the period following the American Civil War, especially used in reference to the South.
    US, not-comparable

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Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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