antebellum

3 definitions found

antebellum - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  nonmodern \nonmodern\ adj.
     1. not modern; of or characteristic of an earlier time.
        Opposite of modern. [Narrower terms: antebellum;
        fogyish, mossgrown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud(prenominal),  stodgy old-fashioned
        ; medieval, mediaeval, gothic;
        old-time, quaint; unmodernized; victorian;
        old-fashioned, outmoded; old-world] Also See: old,
        past.
        [WordNet 1.5]

  antebellum \antebellum\ adj.
     1. belonging to a period before a war, especially the
        American Civil War.
        [WordNet 1.5]

antebellum - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  antebellum
      adj 1: belonging to a period before a war especially the
             American Civil War