It is used to describe the pre-civil war era, and most historians say it goes back to around 1820 or so, but that is in dispute.
If you mean "bell" as in bellicose, or belligerent, it comes from the Latin "bellum", which means "war". Ante-bellum means pre-war, or before the war.
Anti means against or opposite.
Are you going to ante up or sit this hand out, Dallas? That ups the ante considerably. I don't ante up with anyone that uses a city as their first name.
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The prefix "ante-" comes from Latin, meaning "before."
Ante = before bellum = the accusative case of the noun meaning the war So: before the war
The answer is ante bellum.
Ante bellum - before the war
ante-bellum
Treaty of Ghent Status quo ante bellum
Antebellum. Ante means before and bellum means war.
If you mean "bell" as in bellicose, or belligerent, it comes from the Latin "bellum", which means "war". Ante-bellum means pre-war, or before the war.
"Ante bellum" means "before the war", the war in question being the Civil War.
The phrase meaning before the Civil War is ante bellum.
In the ante-bellum South, slave labor was the basis for the agricultural economy, and it made plantation owners very rich.
Status quo ante bellum - The state in which things were before the war. The U.K. failed to conquer the United States, and the United States failed to conquer Canada.
AM means Ante Meridiem in text. Period between Midnight and Noon Called Ante Meridiem in text.