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Webster 1913 Edition
Reconstruction
Reˊcon-struc′tion
(-str?k′sh?n)
, Noun.
1.
The act of constructing again; the state of being reconstructed.
2.
(U.S. Politics)
The act or process of reorganizing the governments of the States which had passed ordinances of secession, and of reestablishing their constitutional relations to the national government, after the close of the Civil War.
Definition 2024
Reconstruction
Reconstruction
See also: reconstruction
English
Proper noun
Reconstruction
- A period of the history of the United States from 1865 to 1877, during which the nation tried to resolve the status of the ex-Confederate states, the ex-Confederate leaders, and the Freedmen (ex-slaves) after the American Civil War.
reconstruction
reconstruction
See also: Reconstruction
English
Noun
reconstruction (plural reconstructions)
- A thing that has been reconstructed or restored to an earlier state.
- The act of restoring something to an earlier state.
- The reconstruction of the medieval bridge began last year.
- A result of an attempt to understand in detail how a certain result or event occurred.
- The detective's reconstruction of what happened that night is dubious.
Translations
something reconstructed or restored
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act of restoring
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attempt to understand
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