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postgenocide

postgenocide adjective: after a genocide.

Adjective

postgenocide (not comparable)

  1. After a genocide.
    • According to Gérard Prunier, everything conspired to turn Congo into a kill zone: a dying dictator; the end of the cold war; Western guilt; and a tough, suspicious, postgenocide, Israel-like Rwanda, whose national ethos, simply stated, was Never Again.2009 April 5, Jeffrey Gettleman, “A Wound in the Heart of Africa”, in New York Times

Origin of postgenocide

From post- + genocide.

Questions about postgenocide

What does postgenocide mean?
Postgenocide means after a genocide.
What part of speech is postgenocide?
Postgenocide is an adjective.

Words near postgenocide in the dictionary

  1. postgenderists
  2. postgenders
  3. postgenital
  4. postgenitally
  5. postgeniture
  6. postgenocide
  7. postgenomic
  8. postgenomics
  9. postgeographic
  10. postgermarial
  11. postgerminal

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