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Bolivarian

Bolivarian

2 8.1
Relating to Simón Bolívar and his political and social ideas in Latin America
  • adjective
  • /boʊlɪˈvɛəriən/
: bolivariano
  • The principles of the Bolivarian movement focus on social justice and equality in Latin America.
  • Bolivarian Revolution
  • Bolivarian movement
  • Venezuela's Bolivarian

Examples

  • Increasingly, political legitimacy divorced from Bolivarian ideology became unimaginable?

    Academic text (2003)
  • Towards this end, liberals continued to press for the institution of earlier Bolivarian legislation.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Another reason for the low rate of success is inherent in the Bolivarian philosophy.

    Blog text (28)
  • Chavez considers the "Bolivarian Revolution" a work in progress.

    Academic text (2007)
  • The cooperatives created under the Bolivarian cooperative law did not come about in isolation.

    Blog text (28)
  • Obama's Latin American strategy must consider the U.S. relationship with ALBA, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America.

    Blog text (21)
  • Banco Mujer is a lesson in grassroots organizing and reflects the bottom-up goal of the Bolivarian project.

    Blog text (28)
  • A lesser, Bolivarian poem, "Marcha," perhaps an abstracted draft of La Victoria de Junin, expresses this function succinctly and clearly:

    Academic text (2001)
  • The challenge to U.S. leadership in the Americas was not limited to Venezuela and its Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (an organization that includes Bolivia, Ecuador, and five Central American and Caribbean states).

    Academic text (2010)
  • The Venezuelan government promotes Bolivarian ideals through various social programs aimed at empowering the poor.

Surface Forms

Bolivarian positive

Morphology

Bolivarian = Bolívar (transparent) = Bolívar + ian

Formed by the productive demonym/affiliation suffix '-ian' meaning 'relating to or supporter of Bolívar', so knowing the base name yields the meaning.

Etymology

Bolivarian comes from the name Bolívar, the leader who helped many South American countries win independence and was called 'the Liberator', so Bolivarian describes ideas or policies that follow his hopes for unity and social justice.