postcolonial

[pohst-kuh-loh-nee-uhl]

adjective

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of postcolonial¹

First recorded in 1930–35; post- + colonial

Example Sentences

Roy manages to set their lives within the whirlwind of India’s postcolonial cultural and political change.

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By training, Sara is a historian of postcolonial Africa, and her career has been spent as a digital archivist at the Getty Museum.

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A graduate of Bennington College, who majored in postcolonial gender studies, Jake is openly gay and from Connecticut.

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The stuff of epics, spy stories and postcolonial tragedies.

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“I major in queer postcolonial astrology,” one of the performers says.

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