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postcolonial

[ pohst-kuh-loh-nee-uh l ]
/ ˌpoʊst kəˈloʊ ni əl /
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adjective

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

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Nearby words

postcode discrimination, postcode lottery, postcode prescribing, postcoital, postcoitus, postcolonial, postcomm, postcommissurotomy syndrome, postcommunion, postconciliar, postconsonantal

Origin of postcolonial

First recorded in 1930–35; post- + colonial
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for post-colonial

  • Surely it thematizes globalization and post-colonial cultural collisions, with a nod to neoconcrete anthropophagy?

    Mona Lisa of the Coffee Shop|Blake Gopnik|February 5, 2013|DAILY BEAST

  • But in the post-colonial world, the struggle between communism and anti-communism rarely had much to do with freedom.

    Scooped|Peter Beinart|June 1, 2012|DAILY BEAST

  • Gilbert Stuart is usually considered the finest American painter of the post-Colonial period.

    Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia|Dorothy M. Torpey

British Dictionary definitions for post-colonial

post-colonial

adjective

existing or occurring since a colony gained independencepost-colonial Nigeria
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012