Definitions for Apartheid

Apartheid a·part·heid

Spelling: [uh-pahrt-hahyt, -heyt, uh-pahr-tahyt, -teyt]
IPA: /əˈpɑrt haɪt, -heɪt, əˈpɑr taɪt, -teɪt/

Apartheid is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 482 anagrams from letters in Apartheid (aadehiprt).

Definitions for Apartheid

noun

  1. (in the Republic of South Africa) a rigid former policy of segregating and economically and politically oppressing the nonwhite population.
  2. any system or practice that separates people according to color, ethnicity, caste, etc.

Origin of Apartheid

1945-50; Afrikaans, equivalent to apart apart + -heid -hood

Examples for Apartheid

Israel is not a perfect state, but it is nothing like apartheid South Africa, says a writer who has lived in both countries.

In apartheid South Africa the choice was clear and beyond escape: It was good versus evil.

He was deputy editor when the newspaper was closed because of its opposition to apartheid.

The fact that racial minorities, especially blacks, are the majority in U.S. prisons has been called the “New American apartheid.”

If this bloc of millions of ­Palestinians cannot vote, that will be an apartheid state.

Living in apartheid South Africa, as I did, was easy in moral terms.

Applying the apartheid label is incorrect—and is also confusing because it obscures the tyranny which is in force.

If the apartheid accusation is correct, then Israel merits harsh condemnation.

But there is none of the institutionalised racism basic to apartheid.

Before Fidel, when segregation was in full swing, the Cuban apartheid meant many clubs and parks still refused black Cubans entry.

Word Value for Apartheid
Scrable

15

Words with friends

15

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