Postapartheid
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Occurring after a period of apartheid. not-comparable
"Ten years after being published, the potent, compact tale of postapartheid South Africa has become a minor contemporary classic, a status further confirmed when Mr. Coetzee won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003."
Example
More examples"Ten years after being published, the potent, compact tale of postapartheid South Africa has become a minor contemporary classic, a status further confirmed when Mr. Coetzee won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003."
Etymology
From post- + apartheid.
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