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anticolonial

anticolonial

5.8
Opposing foreign rule and supporting a country's independence
  • adjective
  • /ˌæntiˈkoʊləniəl/
translation icon : anticolonial
  • Indigenous knowledge recovery is an anticolonial project.
  • anticolonial struggle
  • anticolonial nationalism
  • anticolonial movement

Examples

  • Public euphoria over the nuclear tests had a great deal to do with anticolonial sentiments.

    Academic text (2003)
  • On their return home after World Wars I and II, the South Asians and the North Africans who had been conscripted by the British and French imperial armies propagated a new awareness of anticolonial nationalist and religious political identity among hitherto passive and pliant populations.

    Academic text (2009)
  • The History Wall includes representations of a number of these early anticolonial heroes.

    Academic text (2003)
  • This is the anticolonial dream... to end American nuclear superiority and restore a world where many countries have equal power.

  • A participatory approach is essential within an anticolonial agenda.

    Academic text (2004)
  • In Indonesia, on the other hand, the influence of the military in domestic politics originated with the anticolonial struggle against the Dutch before independence in 1949.

    Academic text (2001)
  • Anticolonial forces, led by the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO), saw the project quite differently.

    Academic text (2005)
  • Some, including Coulthard, have pointed to contemporary forms of anticolonial activism, rather than the pursuit of recognition, as the political strategy more likely to achieve justice for indigenous people.

    Academic text (2016)
  • Indonesians share a strong sense of national political identity forged from a common history of anticolonial struggles, a shared national language (bahasa Indonesia), and state-sponsored education.

    Academic text (2013)
  • Many movements around the world are driven by anticolonial sentiments that seek to empower local communities.

Antonyms

106 4.9

From the time when one country controlled another

Surface Forms

anticolonial positive

Morphology

anticolonial = colonial (transparent) = anti + colony + al

The meaning is directly compositional: 'anti-' means opposing and 'colonial' refers to colonial rule or colonies.

Etymology

The word anticolonial combines anti- meaning 'against' and colonial from colony meaning 'settlement'. So it describes ideas or actions that oppose colonial rule and support independence.