Apartheid

Quick meaning: Apartheid is a noun meaning (South Africa, historical) The policy of racial segregation in South Africa from 1948 to 1994.

Meaning

(South Africa, historical) The policy of racial segregation in South Africa from 1948 to 1994.

More Meanings

1. (by extension) Any similar policy of racial segregation or separation and discrimination, particularly when in favor of a minority rule.
2. (by extension) A policy or situation of segregation based on some specified attribute.
3. (transitive) To impose a policy of segregation of groups of people, especially one based on race.

Example Sentences

Jim Crow miscegenation laws enforced apartheid in marriage.

In these annual reports, the religious apartheid practices in India are not mentioned at all.

She don't care about the rest at all / She's got a system they call apartheid / It keeps a brother in a subjection

The 1973 Apartheid Convention conferred universal jurisdiction to the state signatories to prosecute those who commit apartheid.

Word Forms

• apartheids
• apartheiding
• apartheided

Antonyms for apartheid

Common opposites include antiapartheid.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include racist, racial, racism, segregation, quarantine, confinement.

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