Masculine
apartheid
Meaning
- (masculine) apartheid (racial segregation in South Africa from 1948 to 1994)
- (masculine) apartheid (any policy of racial segregation)
Concepts
Synonyms
desarrollo separado
Translations
Frequency
Hyphenated as
a‧part‧heid
Pronounced as (IPA)
/apaɾˈxeid/
Etymology
In summary
Unadapted borrowing from Afrikaans apartheid (literally “separateness, apartness”) (1929 in a South African socio-political context), from Afrikaans apart (“separate”) + suffix -heid, cognate of English -hood.
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