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autocolonial

autocolonial adjective: involving only the culture of a colonizing force; reflecting complete assimilation.

Adjective (1)

autocolonial (not comparable)

  1. Involving only the culture of a colonizing force; reflecting complete assimilation.
    • It tends to reject the monologue of either autocolonial, assimilationist, English-only verse or the monologue of nationalist Spanish-only verse.1994, Alfred Arteaga, An Other Tongue
    • Psychologically, he symbolizes the problem of adolescence that strives to express and define itself in an adult world that discourages originality; politically, he refuses to be appropriated by dominant autocolonial discourse […]2005, Ann González, Sí Pero No, page 64

Adjective (2)

autocolonial (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to an autocolony.
    • This may be because the formation of autocolonies within the mother cell wall is a considerable advance over the condition of free-lying spherical cells, and because along with the development of this autocolonial habit there has gone almost necessarily an axial differentiation of the individual...1914, Gilbert Morgan Smith, The Organization of the Colony in Certain Four-celled Coenobic Algae, page 1175
    • Single-chambered globular forms with attachment scars, in the Late Ordovician Maysville Group of Kentucky, are most likely referrable to Sorosphaera tricella Moreman, 1930 inasmuch as such specimens occur with autocolonial specimens of S. tricella.1981, James Elvin Conkin, Barbara M. Conkin, Early Mississippian (Kinderhookian) Smaller Foraminifera from the McCraney Limestone of Missouri and Illinois, page 12

Origin of autocolonial

From auto- + colonial.

From autocolony + -al.

Questions about autocolonial

What does autocolonial mean?
Autocolonial means involving only the culture of a colonizing force; reflecting complete assimilation.
What part of speech is autocolonial?
Autocolonial is an adjective.

Words near autocolonial in the dictionary

  1. autocollimating
  2. autocollimation
  3. autocollimations
  4. autocollimator
  5. autocollimators
  6. autocolonial
  7. autocolonialism
  8. autocolonies
  9. autocolony
  10. autocombustible
  11. autocombustion

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