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postcolonial

[ pohst-kuh-loh-nee-uhl ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to the period following a state of colonialism.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of postcolonial1

First recorded in 1930–35; post- + colonial

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Example Sentences

For her entire life, Mottley had watched Barbados painstakingly build itself up as a postcolonial democracy.

Gopal, a professor of postcolonial studies at the University of Cambridge, says the situation has also resonated with people as it shows how insidious racism can be—at the family level, at the social level, and at the institutional level.

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In other words, the omnipresent postcolonial Arab State has just about dropped dead, the times are fluid and the vacuums are many.

Ottoman imperialism is now religiously overlooked for inclusion in postcolonial studies at Western universities.

The Israeli argument that the postcolonial world may be pro-Palestinian, but the democratic West is solidly pro-Israel collapsed.

With the rise of numerous postcolonial powers, that argument looks harder to defend.

In The Long Song, Levy has taken on the postcolonial challenge of giving voice to those who had no voice in history.

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