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apartheid

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9 lettersPronunciation /əˈpɑːtheɪt/Part of speech nounSorted aadehiprtStarts with AEnds with D0 cluesCommon crossword word
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  1. A former South African system of legally enforced racial segregation.

Word origin

Borrowed from Afrikaans apartheid (literally “separateness, apartness”) (1929 in a South African socio-political context), from Afrikaans apart (“separate”) + suffix -heid, cognate of English -hood.

Used in a sentence

  • 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 premise of apartheid was that whites were superior to Africans, Coloureds and Indians, and the function of it was to entrench white supremacy forever.
  • The reality, however, is a disquieting and entirely white town, littered with old apartheid flags and monuments to the architects of segregation.

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