apartheid
apartheid Lexical Profile
apartheid Game Scores & Validity
• noun
An official policy and legal system of strict racial segregation and political and economic discrimination against the nonwhite majority practiced in the Republic of South Africa from 1948 to the early 1990s.
"Nelson Mandela spent twenty-seven years in prison for his leadership in the struggle to dismantle apartheid in South Africa."
Any institutionalized system or practice that separates and discriminates against people on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic class, or other characteristics.
"Urban planners warned that the lack of affordable public transit was creating a form of economic apartheid between the city's wealthy core and its outlying neighborhoods."
• Rhymes for apartheid
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from Afrikaans apartheid (literally 'apart-hood' or 'separateness'), formed from Dutch apart ('separate') and the suffix -heid (cognate with the English suffix '-hood').