Apartheid

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  apartheid \apartheid\ n. [Afrikaans, fr. D. apart apart + -heid
     -hood.]
     1. segregation by race; -- a term used in South Africa.
  
     Syn: racial segregation
          [WordNet 1.5]


  
     2. the official policy of strict segregation by race
        practised by the government of the Union of South Africa
        up to 1993.
        [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  apartheid
       n : a social policy or racial segregation involving political
           and economic and legal discrimination against non-whites;
           the former official policy in South Africa

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  73 Moby Thesaurus words for "apartheid":
     Jim Crow, Jim Crow law, alien, anti-Semitism, apartness,
     black power, black supremacy, chauvinism, class consciousness,
     class distinction, class hatred, class prejudice, class war,
     color bar, color line, detachment, discrimination, division,
     ethnocentrism, exclusiveness, fascism, foreigner, insularity,
     insulation, isolation, isolationism, know-nothingism,
     male chauvinist, minority prejudice, narrowness, out-group,
     outcast, outsider, parochialism, persona non grata, privacy,
     privatism, privatization, quarantine, race hatred, race prejudice,
     race snobbery, racial discrimination, racial segregation,
     racialism, racism, recess, reclusion, red-baiting, retirement,
     retreat, rustication, seclusion, secrecy, segregation,
     separateness, separation, separatism, sequestration,
     sex discrimination, sexism, snobbishness, social barrier,
     social discrimination, splendid isolation, stranger,
     superpatriotism, tightness, ultranationalism, white power,
     white supremacy, withdrawal, xenophobia