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postcolonial

adj

Etymology

From post- + colonial.

  1. derived from *kʷel-✻
  2. derived from colōnia
  3. inherited from colane
  4. suffixed as colonial — “colony + -al”
  5. prefixed as postcolonial — “post- + colonial”

Definitions

  1. Following the end of colonial rule.

    • In the postcolonial period, democracy alternated with military rule.
    • The new postcolonial government in Khartoum immediately declared that its national borders matched the tweaked boundaries stipulated in the second proclamation, making the Hala’ib triangle Sudanese.

  2. Of or pertaining to postcolonialism.

    • a postcolonial theory of esthetics

  3. A person living in a postcolonial society.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA