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antebellum When World War I was over, the French nobility found it impossible to return to their extravagant antebellum way of life. ˌæntɪˈbɛləm

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Existing before a war, especially before the American Civil War (1861–65). Even countries that win a war often end up worse off than they had been before, and the losers almost always do. So antebellum often summons up images of ease, elegance, and entertainment that disappeared in the postwar years. In the American South, the antebellum way of life depended on a social structure, based on slavery, that collapsed after the Civil War; Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind shows the nostalgia and bitterness felt by wealthy Southerners after the war more than the relief and anticipation experienced by those released from slavery. In Europe, World War I shattered the grand life of the upper classes, even in victorious France and Britain, and changed society hugely in the space of just four years

word	antebellum
definition	Existing before a war, especially before the American Civil War (1861–65).
eg_sentence	When World War I was over, the French nobility found it impossible to return to their extravagant antebellum way of life.
explanation	Even countries that win a war often end up worse off than they had been before, and the losers almost always do. So antebellum often summons up images of ease, elegance, and entertainment that disappeared in the postwar years. In the American South, the antebellum way of life depended on a social structure, based on slavery, that collapsed after the Civil War; Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind shows the nostalgia and bitterness felt by wealthy Southerners after the war more than the relief and anticipation experienced by those released from slavery. In Europe, World War I shattered the grand life of the upper classes, even in victorious France and Britain, and changed society hugely in the space of just four years
IPA	ˌæntɪˈbɛləm

War Antebellum American Civil World I Life Existing