Postcolonial

Alternative forms

• post-colonial

Origin

- + colonial

Full definition of postcolonial

Adjective

1. Following the end of colonial ruleIn the postcolonial period, democracy alternated with military rule.
2. (philosophy) Of or pertaining to postcolonialisma postcolonial theory of esthetics

Derived terms

• postcolonialism
• postcolonialist
• postcoloniality
• postcolonially