单词 | post-columbian |
释义 | > as lemmaspost-Columbian post-Columbian adj. Brit. /ˌpəʊs(t)kəˈlʌmbɪən/ , U.S. /ˌpoʊs(t)kəˈləmbiən/ of, relating to, or characteristic of the period since Christopher Columbus reached the Americas.ΚΠ 1855 G. R. Gliddon in J. C. Nott & G. R. Gliddon Types of Mankind (ed. 7) iii. ii. 650 What of history has been made for Indian nations by post-Columbian foreigners, results equally from the matured philology of Gallatin. 1972 A. W. Crosby Columbian Exchange ii. 39 The record of early post-Columbian medical history of America was never kept carefully and much of it has been erased since. 2001 Guardian (Nexis) 21 July 8 Flannery retells the tragic story of post-Columbian human colonisation in a distinctively ecological register. < as lemmas |
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