See decolonial on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "de-",
"3": "colonial"
},
"expansion": "de- + colonial",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From de- + colonial.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more decolonial",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most decolonial",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "decolonial (comparative more decolonial, superlative most decolonial)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms prefixed with de-",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "decolonially"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
122,
132
]
],
"ref": "2015 November 9, Alana Lentin, “'Real Australians' are a myth and 'saying welcome' to refugees is not enough”, in The Guardian:",
"text": "It was called for and led by the “Mafed collective of women experiencing racism” and supported by a host of international decolonial and antiracist activists, scholars and public figures – including the former Black Panther, Angela Davis.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
115,
125
]
],
"ref": "2025 June 7, Edward Helmore, “Professor sues University of California for suspension over comments about Israel’s war in Gaza”, in The Guardian:",
"text": "The suit was filed by Rupa Marya, an internal medicine physician and professor at UCSF, identified as an expert in decolonial theory. Marya was placed on leave in September 2024 and had her clinical privileges briefly suspended by the UCSF executive medical board following comments she made on X that questioned the impacts of Zionism as “a supremacist, racist ideology” on healthcare.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Of or relating to decoloniality."
],
"id": "en-decolonial-en-adj-KS0mZshQ",
"links": [
[
"decoloniality",
"decoloniality"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"lang_code": "nl",
"sense": "relating to decoloniality",
"word": "dekoloniaal"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "relating to decoloniality",
"word": "dekolonial"
}
]
}
],
"word": "decolonial"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "de-",
"3": "colonial"
},
"expansion": "de- + colonial",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From de- + colonial.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "decoloniales",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine",
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "decolonial m or f (masculine and feminine plural decoloniales)",
"name": "es-adj"
}
],
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Spanish terms prefixed with de-",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"decolonial"
],
"id": "en-decolonial-es-adj-o7W5URiz",
"links": [
[
"decolonial",
"decolonial#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"word": "decolonial"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"word": "decolonially"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "de-",
"3": "colonial"
},
"expansion": "de- + colonial",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From de- + colonial.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more decolonial",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most decolonial",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "decolonial (comparative more decolonial, superlative most decolonial)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English terms prefixed with de-",
"English terms with quotations",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with German translations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
122,
132
]
],
"ref": "2015 November 9, Alana Lentin, “'Real Australians' are a myth and 'saying welcome' to refugees is not enough”, in The Guardian:",
"text": "It was called for and led by the “Mafed collective of women experiencing racism” and supported by a host of international decolonial and antiracist activists, scholars and public figures – including the former Black Panther, Angela Davis.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
115,
125
]
],
"ref": "2025 June 7, Edward Helmore, “Professor sues University of California for suspension over comments about Israel’s war in Gaza”, in The Guardian:",
"text": "The suit was filed by Rupa Marya, an internal medicine physician and professor at UCSF, identified as an expert in decolonial theory. Marya was placed on leave in September 2024 and had her clinical privileges briefly suspended by the UCSF executive medical board following comments she made on X that questioned the impacts of Zionism as “a supremacist, racist ideology” on healthcare.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Of or relating to decoloniality."
],
"links": [
[
"decoloniality",
"decoloniality"
]
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"lang_code": "nl",
"sense": "relating to decoloniality",
"word": "dekoloniaal"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "relating to decoloniality",
"word": "dekolonial"
}
],
"word": "decolonial"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "de-",
"3": "colonial"
},
"expansion": "de- + colonial",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From de- + colonial.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "decoloniales",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine",
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "decolonial m or f (masculine and feminine plural decoloniales)",
"name": "es-adj"
}
],
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Spanish adjectives",
"Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
"Spanish epicene adjectives",
"Spanish lemmas",
"Spanish terms prefixed with de-"
],
"glosses": [
"decolonial"
],
"links": [
[
"decolonial",
"decolonial#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"word": "decolonial"
}
Download raw JSONL data for decolonial meaning in All languages combined (3.0kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-12-02 using wiktextract (e2469cc and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.