postcolonial

adjective

post·​co·​lo·​nial ˌpōst-kə-ˈlō-nē-əl 

-nyəl

: of, relating to, or being a time after colonialism

postcolonial America

Carter was the first American president to take seriously the entire postcolonial era that has remade the globe since World War II.

—Garry Wills

Examples of postcolonial in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Doing so would have been a more convincing rebuke of the domination of English, as well as opening up a conversation about Coetzee’s own place in postcolonial literature. —Carey Baraka, The Dial, 26 June 2025

During the 1930s and 40s, amid ongoing political turbulence, artists began a crucial negotiation between an emerging postcolonial national consciousness and a burgeoning modernism. —Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025

Denmark’s postcolonial neglect of Greenland goes back much further than Trump or Frederiksen, of course. —Morten Høi Jensen, The Dial, 19 June 2025

In the postcolonial period, that access became more complicated: By 1978, India banned the export of rhesus macaques for research after public concern over their use in military and radiation experiments. —Marina Bolotnikova, Vox, 18 June 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1883, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for postcolonial

• baronial
• colonial
• anticolonial
• intercolonial
• neocolonial
• antimonial
• ceremonial
• matrimonial
• precolonial
• testimonial