postcolonial
[ pohst-kuh-loh-nee-uhl ]
/ ˌpoʊst kəˈloʊ ni əl /
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adjective
of or relating to the period following a state of colonialism.
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How to use postcolonial in a sentence
Surely it thematizes globalization and post-colonial cultural collisions, with a nod to neoconcrete anthropophagy?
But in the post-colonial world, the struggle between communism and anti-communism rarely had much to do with freedom.
This kind of Western post colonial figure is aghast at all the weird antics.
Gilbert Stuart is usually considered the finest American painter of the post-Colonial period.
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British Dictionary definitions for postcolonial
post-colonial
adjective
existing or occurring since a colony gained independencepost-colonial Nigeria
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