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postcolonialist

postcolonialist adjective: synonym of postcolonial.

Adjective

postcolonialist (not comparable)

  1. Synonym of postcolonial.
    • Would an image such as Boccasile’s staged power play still work in the context of the postcolonialist market?1995, Karen Pinkus, chapter 2, in Bodily Regimes: Italian Advertising under Fascism, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 79
    Synonyms:
    postcolonial

Noun

postcolonialist (plural postcolonialists)

  1. One who studies postcolonialism.
    • Other critiques have not focussed on the lexicography but rather have situated Hobson-Jobson within a larger postcolonialist critique of the British imperial project.2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 487

Synonyms of postcolonialist

Forms of postcolonialist

pluralpostcolonialists

Origin of postcolonialist

From postcolonial + -ist.

Questions about postcolonialist

What does postcolonialist mean?
Postcolonialist means synonym of postcolonial.
What part of speech is postcolonialist?
Postcolonialist can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near postcolonialist in the dictionary

  1. postcolonial
  2. postcolonial anarchism
  3. postcolonial studies
  4. postcolonialism
  5. postcolonialisms
  6. postcolonialist
  7. postcolonialists
  8. postcolonialities
  9. postcoloniality
  10. postcolonially
  11. postcolonials

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