postcolonial

English

Alternative forms

• post-colonial

Etymology

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

Derived terms

Derived terms

• postcolonialism
• postcolonialist

• postcoloniality
• postcolonially

Translations

following the end of colonial rule

• Esperanto: postkolonia
• German: postkolonial
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Romanian: postcolonial

Noun

postcolonial (plural postcolonials)

1. A person living in a postcolonial society.

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Spanish

Adjective

postcolonial m or f (masculine and feminine plural postcoloniales)

1. postcolonial