Autocolonial
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Involving only the culture of a colonizing force; reflecting complete assimilation. not-comparable
"It tends to reject the monologue of either autocolonial, assimilationist, English-only verse or the monologue of nationalist Spanish-only verse."
- 2 Pertaining to an autocolony. not-comparable
"This may be because the formation of autocolonies within the mother cell wall is a considerable advance over the condition of free-lying spherical cells, and because along with the development of this autocolonial habit there has gone almost necessarily an axial differentiation of the individual cells."
Example
More examples"It tends to reject the monologue of either autocolonial, assimilationist, English-only verse or the monologue of nationalist Spanish-only verse."
Etymology
From auto- + colonial.
From autocolony + -al.
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