Definitions for antebellum

antebellum an·te·bel·lum

Spelling: [an-tee-bel-uh m]
IPA: /ˈæn tiˈbɛl əm/

Antebellum is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 472 anagrams from letters in antebellum (abeellmntu).

Definitions for antebellum

adjective

  1. before or existing before a war, especially the American Civil War; prewar:

Origin of antebellum

First recorded in 1860-65, antebellum is from the Latin word ante bellum before the war

Examples for antebellum

Banjos and fiddles (violins) were owned only limitedly by antebellum Negroes.

The subjects upon which the antebellum Negro preached, however, were comparatively few.

It is as handsome as their splendid plate of antebellum days, which was destroyed by fire.

That was in the antebellum days, before men realized they couldn't oppress their fellows with impunity.

Certainly Simms seems to have been the best imaginative writer the antebellum South produced.

In most of the antebellum state banking laws reserves were required only against note issue.

True to her antebellum ideas, Mammy Maria dressed her two girls every afternoon before dinner.

I know Tom Woods is an intriguing writer, and I too love my liberty, but this is no longer the antebellum era.

If Republicans stand for crude force, and Democrats for antebellum sentimentality, both are doomed together.

The antebellum state-bank regulations were intended to secure the safety of the bank note.

Word Value for antebellum
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14

Words with friends

20

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