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Meaning of heterochthonous | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C2

Definitions

Not indigenous; foreign.

Examples

“In the view of Johnson and Baldwin, the only sovereignty over Indians having any legal significance was the sovereignty imposed from without – the heterochthonous sovereignty of the United States and the individual states.”

CEFR level

C2
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This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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