Associations to the word «Apartheid»

Wiktionary

APARTHEID, noun. (historical) The discriminatory policy of racial separation used by South Africa from 1948 to 1990.
APARTHEID, noun. (by extension) Any similar policy of racial separation/segregation and discrimination.
APARTHEID, noun. (by extension) A policy or situation of segregation based on some specified attribute.
APARTHEID WALL, proper noun. (derogatory) (geopolitics) A separation barrier built by the Israeli government in the West Bank

Dictionary definition

APARTHEID, noun. 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.

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca