variants
or less commonly anticolonial
: opposed to colonial rule of one country by another : opposing or resisting colonialism
anti-colonial movements
anti-colonialism
adjective
or less commonly anticolonialism
supporters of anti-colonialism
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There are streets and parks named for Cuban heroes—from Máximo Gómez, an anti-colonial fighter of the nineteenth century, to Osvaldo Payá, a Christian dissident who died in a suspicious car crash in 2012.
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Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
Much like Cuba supported anti-colonial and left-wing forces in Africa, Central and South America, the Cuban government saw the armed Black liberation movement in the U.S. as part of a global revolutionary struggle.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2025
Digital settler colonialism renders digital terrain as an extension of physical spaces ripe for colonization, relying on imperial sanction to target anti-colonial subjects and their supporters as enemies that must be neutralized by any means necessary.
—Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
The linkup, organized amidst Castro’s broader trip to the city to speak at the United Nations, became a symbolic one, representing solidarity between Black liberation and anti-colonial struggles abroad.
—Jessica Wang, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Sep. 2025
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Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
Much like Cuba supported anti-colonial and left-wing forces in Africa, Central and South America, the Cuban government saw the armed Black liberation movement in the U.S. as part of a global revolutionary struggle.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2025
Digital settler colonialism renders digital terrain as an extension of physical spaces ripe for colonization, relying on imperial sanction to target anti-colonial subjects and their supporters as enemies that must be neutralized by any means necessary.
—Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
The linkup, organized amidst Castro’s broader trip to the city to speak at the United Nations, became a symbolic one, representing solidarity between Black liberation and anti-colonial struggles abroad.
—Jessica Wang, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for anti-colonial
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“Anti-colonial.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-colonial. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.
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