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postcolonial

postcolonial

English

Alternative forms

  • post-colonial

Adjective

postcolonial (not comparable)

  1. Following the end of colonial rule
    In the postcolonial period, democracy alternated with military rule.
  2. (philosophy) Of or pertaining to postcolonialism
    a postcolonial theory of esthetics

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Spanish

Adjective

postcolonial m, f (plural postcoloniales)

  1. postcolonial