postbellum

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of the period following a war.

   “For most Europeans, a postbellum world had seemed the self-evident future, says Finland’s president, Sauli Niinistö.”

2. sıfat Of the period following the American Civil War, especially used in reference to the South.

   “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.”