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Meaning of postcolonial

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

postcolonial

noun

Definitions

  1. A person living in a postcolonial society.

adjective

Definitions

  1. Following the end of colonial rule

    Example: In the postcolonial period, democracy alternated with military rule.

  2. Of or pertaining to postcolonialism

    Example: a postcolonial theory of esthetics