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postconquest

postconquest adjective: after a conquest.

Adjective

postconquest (not comparable)

  1. After a conquest.
    • One might describe what happens between Columbus's first letter and the postconquest narratives of Francisco López de Gómara or Bernal Díaz del Castillo as the European imposition of meanings onto American society — rendering allegorical what was encountered as autoreflexive — and the consequent...1999, Roland Greene, Unrequited Conquests: Love and Empire in the Colonial Americas, page 13

Origin of postconquest

From post- + conquest.

Questions about postconquest

What does postconquest mean?
Postconquest means after a conquest.
What part of speech is postconquest?
Postconquest is an adjective.

Words near postconquest in the dictionary

  1. postconflict
  2. postconfluence
  3. postconfluency
  4. postconfluent
  5. postconnubial
  6. postconquest
  7. postconscious
  8. postconsolidation
  9. postconsonantal
  10. postconsonantally
  11. postconspiracy

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