postcolonial
adjective
post·co·lo·nial ˌpōst-kə-ˈlō-nē-əl 
-nyəl
: of, relating to, or being a time after colonialism
postcolonial America
Carter was the first American president to take seriously the entire postcolonial era that has remade the globe since World War II.
Garry Wills
Garry Wills
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Charles is also now head of the Commonwealth, a postcolonial group of 54 countries comprising 2.4 billion people. Mike Memoli, NBC News, 9 Sep. 2022 Recent years have seen a notable rise in the retelling and memorializing of the more positive and edifying human qualities that were also part of a searingly traumatic time, say postcolonial historians and experts in Partition. Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Aug. 2022 These books examined belonging in a postcolonial world and creativity in defiance of manmade borders. Mariah Tauger, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2022 Since 1983, the school has had an independent filmmaking focus, pairing practical production with film theory courses that cover African Cinema and postcolonial Third Cinema. Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Aug. 2022 For her entire life, Mottley had watched Barbados painstakingly build itself up as a postcolonial democracy. New York Times, 27 July 2022 Judges who understood the nuances of a postcolonial space liked it. Anderson Tepper, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2022 Despite the movement’s victory, the postcolonial corruptions of power turn out to produce new bosses who, despite a cynical veneer of populism, are much the same as the old. New York Times, 16 May 2022 So with a vote share that would make a dictator grin (99.2 percent), John Lee became the fifth person selected to lead the city in the postcolonial era. Timothy Mclaughlin, The Atlantic, 25 May 2022 See More
Mike Memoli, NBC News, 9 Sep. 2022 Recent years have seen a notable rise in the retelling and memorializing of the more positive and edifying human qualities that were also part of a searingly traumatic time, say postcolonial historians and experts in Partition. Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Aug. 2022 These books examined belonging in a postcolonial world and creativity in defiance of manmade borders. Mariah Tauger, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2022 Since 1983, the school has had an independent filmmaking focus, pairing practical production with film theory courses that cover African Cinema and postcolonial Third Cinema. Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Aug. 2022 For her entire life, Mottley had watched Barbados painstakingly build itself up as a postcolonial democracy. New York Times, 27 July 2022 Judges who understood the nuances of a postcolonial space liked it. Anderson Tepper, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2022 Despite the movement’s victory, the postcolonial corruptions of power turn out to produce new bosses who, despite a cynical veneer of populism, are much the same as the old. New York Times, 16 May 2022 So with a vote share that would make a dictator grin (99.2 percent), John Lee became the fifth person selected to lead the city in the postcolonial era. Timothy Mclaughlin, The Atlantic, 25 May 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
1883, in the meaning defined above
- make oneself scarce
- make oneself useful
- make out
- make out like a bandit
- make over
- make port
- make progress
- make public
- make quick work of
- make redundant
- make reference to
- make sail
- make sense
- make sense of
- make shift
- make short work of
- make short/quick/light work of
- make so bold
- make some allowance for
- make someone (want to) puke
- make someone an honest woman
- make someone feel (right) at home
- make someone feel at home
- make someone feel right at home
- make someone puke