Added 10 October 2026
apartheid
/əˈpɑːtheɪt/ noun
noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about apartheid at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
- A social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against people who are not Whites; the former official policy in South Africa.
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.
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