Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Reconstruction"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Reconstruction \Re`con*struc"tion\ (-str?k"sh?n), n.
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 re["e]stablishing their constitutional
relations to the national government, after the close of
the Civil War.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Reconstruction
n 1: the period after the United States Civil War when the
southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into
the Union; 1865-1877 [syn: {Reconstruction}]
2: the activity of constructing something again
3: an interpretation formed by piecing together bits of
evidence
4: recall via mental reconstruction
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