apartheid

«apartheid» in Mova's school dictionary: Apartheid was a system of laws in South Africa from 1948… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (apartheid; uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) Apartheid was a system of laws in South Africa from 1948 to the early 1990s that kept people apart by race and gave white people power and rights that Black and other people of colour were denied. tree →

2) Apartheid is also used for any system that separates and treats groups of people unequally by law. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in history and citizenship lessons about racism, human rights and Nelson Mandela, who was in prison for 27 years for fighting apartheid and became president in 1994 after it ended.

examples

• Under apartheid, Black and white children went to separate schools. tree →
• Nelson Mandela fought against apartheid. tree →
• Apartheid ended in the early 1990s, and free elections were held in 1994. tree →
• Many countries refused to trade with South Africa because of apartheid. tree →
• Signs under apartheid said «Whites only». tree →
• People around the world protested against apartheid. tree →
• We learned how apartheid was unfair and cruel. tree →

note

An Afrikaans word meaning «apartness»; pronounced a-PAR-tide or a-PAR-tate. Uncountable. Written with a small «a». When people today call another system «apartheid», it is often a disputed political claim, so lessons say who is saying it.

In the corpora

• Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison under apartheid, South Africa's laws separating people by race, then became president in 1994.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «apartheid» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.