Pronunciation
- (RP, strictly) IPA: /əˈpɑːtheɪt/, /əˈpɑːthaɪt/
- (America, strictly) enPR: ə-pärtʹhīt, IPA: /əˈpɑɹthaɪt/
- (America, alternatively) enPR: ə-pärtʹhāt, IPA: /əˈpɑɹtheɪt/
- (America, laxly) enPR: ə-pärʹtīd, IPA: /əˈpɑɹ.taɪd/
apartheid
- (South Africa, historical) The policy of racial separation used by South Africa from 1948 to 1990.
- 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, pages 127-8:
- The premise of apartheid was that whites were superior to Africans, Coloureds and Indians, and the function of it was to entrench white supremacy forever.
- 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, pages 127-8:
- (by extension) Any similar policy of racial separation/segregation and discrimination.
- 1963, Justice William O. Douglas, concurring, Lombard v. Louisiana (373 U.S. 267):
- When the doors of a business are open to the public, they must be open to all regardless of race if apartheid is not to become engrained in our public […] .
- 1963, Justice William O. Douglas, concurring, Lombard v. Louisiana (373 U.S. 267):
- (by extension) A policy or situation of segregation based on some specified attribute.
apartheid (apartheids, present participle apartheiding; past and past participle apartheided)
- To impose a policy of segregation of groups of people, especially one based on race.
- French: apartheid
- German: Apartheid
- Italian: apartheid
- Portuguese: apartheid
- Russian: апартеи́д
- Spanish: apartheid
- German: Apartheid
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