anti-colonial

adjective

an·​ti-co·​lo·​nial
ˌan-tē-kə-ˈlō-nē-əl,
-nyəl,
ˌan-tī- How to pronounce anti-colonial (audio)
variants or less commonly anticolonial
: opposed to colonial rule of one country by another : opposing or resisting colonialism
anti-colonial movements
anti-colonialism
ˌan-tē-kə-ˈlō-nē-ə-ˌli-zəm
-nyə-ˌli-
ˌan-tī- How to pronounce anti-colonial (audio)
adjective
or less commonly anticolonialism
supporters of anti-colonialism

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Attitudes among the Spanish toward their sole sub-Saharan possession did much to empower the violently anti-colonial protests which would come in the 1960s, as Enrique Okenve Martínez explains in a 2016 issue of Afro-Hispanic Review. The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 18 Apr. 2025 Britain and France, though ravaged by that war, clung to their empires until anti-colonial revolts and U.S. pressure pried them loose. Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2025 Across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, anti-colonial movements repeatedly drew strength from Exodus imagery in their resistance to European imperialism. Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 12 Apr. 2025 Sarah Maldoror’s Sambizanga, set in 1961 at the onset of the Angolan War of Independence, follows the struggles of members of an anti-colonial movement. Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 4 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for anti-colonial

Word History

First Known Use

1810, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of anti-colonial was in 1810

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“Anti-colonial.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-colonial. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.

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