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Meaning of autocolonial | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. Involving only the culture of a colonizing force; reflecting complete assimilation.
    not-comparable
  2. Pertaining to an autocolony.
    not-comparable

Examples

“It tends to reject the monologue of either autocolonial, assimilationist, English-only verse or the monologue of nationalist Spanish-only verse.”
“Psychologically, he symbolizes the problem of adolescence that strives to express and define itself in an adult world that discourages originality; politically, he refuses to be appropriated by dominant autocolonial discourse […]”
“Its modern conception as a boundary separating the cultivated from the wild is a palimpsest; below this persists the remaindered reality of a porous zone that challenges colonial or autocolonial demarcation.”
“In part, Siam avoided external rule by proffering and employing autocolonial practices to demonstrate its siwilai (civilized) status (Winichakul 1994, 2000, 2010).”
“This may be because the formation of autocolonies within the mother cell wall is a considerable advance over the condition of free-lying spherical cells, and because along with the development of this autocolonial habit there has gone almost necessarily an axial differentiation of the individual cells.”
“Single-chambered globular forms with attachment scars, in the Late Ordovician Maysville Group of Kentucky, are most likely referrable to Sorosphaera tricella Moreman, 1930 inasmuch as such specimens occur with autocolonial specimens of S. tricella.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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