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
Examples of anti-colonial in a Sentence
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How Palestine went global December 4, 2023 | People with no direct connection to the Middle East have taken to seeing the Palestinian cause as an anti-colonial struggle connected to their own experience.
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Vox Staff, Vox, 9 May 2024
For starters, Israeli officials tended to pay little attention to India’s ideological positions or anti-colonial commitments.
—Michal Ben-Josef Hirsch, Foreign Affairs, 10 July 2017
This anti-colonial approach reframes our existence on this planet as a debt to the future instead of an inheritance from the past.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
During anti-colonial revolts in the 19th century, many of the courtesans’ residences became hideout spots for Indian rebels.
—Astha Rajvanshi, TIME, 2 May 2024
The first anti-colonial freedom fighter in Malawi, John Chilembwe, was a Baptist minister.
—Mark Jenkins, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
But their politics ultimately feed a worldview that’s inclusive, anti-colonial, and conscious of the ways that sectarianism has been used to break working-class solidarity.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2024
Basically, there is and was a nationalist project other than the anti-colonial one that began in 1925 with the foundation of the R.S.S., an organization which explicitly had a kind of Hindu majoritarianism at the center.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2024
But Danielle Wood, a leading anti-colonial space intellectual, simply sees an African people seizing what’s entitled to them under space law through a commercial partnership.
—Khari Johnson, WIRED, 24 Jan. 2024
Vox Staff, Vox, 9 May 2024
For starters, Israeli officials tended to pay little attention to India’s ideological positions or anti-colonial commitments.
—Michal Ben-Josef Hirsch, Foreign Affairs, 10 July 2017
This anti-colonial approach reframes our existence on this planet as a debt to the future instead of an inheritance from the past.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
During anti-colonial revolts in the 19th century, many of the courtesans’ residences became hideout spots for Indian rebels.
—Astha Rajvanshi, TIME, 2 May 2024
The first anti-colonial freedom fighter in Malawi, John Chilembwe, was a Baptist minister.
—Mark Jenkins, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
But their politics ultimately feed a worldview that’s inclusive, anti-colonial, and conscious of the ways that sectarianism has been used to break working-class solidarity.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2024
Basically, there is and was a nationalist project other than the anti-colonial one that began in 1925 with the foundation of the R.S.S., an organization which explicitly had a kind of Hindu majoritarianism at the center.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2024
But Danielle Wood, a leading anti-colonial space intellectual, simply sees an African people seizing what’s entitled to them under space law through a commercial partnership.
—Khari Johnson, WIRED, 24 Jan. 2024
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“Anti-colonial.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-colonial. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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