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colony
  1. Governmental unit created on land of another country owned by colonists from a country
  2. A settlement of emigrants who move to a new place, but remain culturally tied to their original place of origin
  3. Region or governmental unit created by another country and generally ruled by another country.
  4. (India) An apartment complex.
  5. A group of people with the same interests or ethnic origin concentrated in a particular geographic area
  6. A group of organisms of same or different species living together in close association.
  7. A collective noun for rabbits.
  8. Synonyms:
  9. Examples:
    1. “Korea was made a Japanese protectorate in 1905 and turned into a full colony of the growing Japanese empire in 1910.”
      “Aos is more a painter's colony than a writer's hangout.”
      “There was an important Italian colony in London, mostly of Florentines and Lucchese, dealing in silk and silk fabrics.”
colonialism
  1. The colonial domination policy. A colonial system.
  2. A colonial word, phrase, concept, or habit.
  3. Colonial life.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Under colonialism, a nation is a ground on which men may gratify their desires for control and honor.”
      “It is doubtful if there will ever be a conclusive judgement about colonialism.”
      “The Rastaman is the ultimate Freedom Fighter, battling the conglomeration of sexism, racism, classism, colonialism, and cultural denigration.”
colonial
  1. A person from a country that is or was controlled by another.
  2. (US) A house that is built in a style reminiscent of the period of the colonization of New England.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Dudley Bradstreet, son of a colonial governor, was perhaps the most famous colonial who picked life over reputation.”
colonist
  1. A founder of a colony.
  2. A member of a colony.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “This is no uncommon occurrence to the merchant or the colonist of tropical America.”
      “When everyone puts the empire behind them, when nobody wishes to be a colonist, how viable is the indigene's persona?”
      “To the colonist of the East and pioneer of the West, the white-tailed deer was an ever present help in time of trouble.”
coloniser
  1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of colonizer.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Carlyon's text descends into the psychological realms of the coloniser and the colonised, avoiding the facileness of judgement and condemnation.”
      “The overall tendency, however, is to eliminate customs and import the norms of the former coloniser.”
      “The struggle against racism in Europe and North America is a struggle of the colonised against the coloniser.”
colonizer
  1. One who establishes or joins a colony; a colonist
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  3. Examples:
    1. “In the history of nations, it stands foremost as the discoverer, conquerer and colonizer of new lands.”
      “The country was accused of first being a brutal colonizer, and then a usurious bully.”
      “But this awareness stood alone when it was called upon to confront the omnipotence of the colonizer.”
colonization
  1. The process of establishing a colony.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Spreading from the ports, Formosan termites began a subterranean colonization of the country.”
      “A healthy colon with adequate mucus production and appropriate bacterial colonization prevents the adherence of pathogenic bacteria.”
      “The acrolect is often European, reflecting the history of colonization, but this is not always the case.”
colonizationist
  1. An advocate of colonizationism.
  2. Examples:
    1. “As early as 1818, mutual aid societies of black women were criticizing the colonizationist movement.”
      “Clay was a known colonizationist, and very interested in advancing the cause of Black repatriation.”
      “Through much of his career, he was a colonizationist, seeking the gradual end of slavery by moral persuasion and the ultimate removal of blacks to Africa.”
colonisation
  1. (British spelling) Alternative spelling of colonization
  2. Examples:
    1. “Across the world, the colonisation of time happened as surely and as devastatingly as the colonisation of land.”
      “Patients at risk of infection can be identified and treated and colonisation eradicated.”
      “Qualities such as these make goddesses a perfect foil to counter new forms of cultural colonisation.”
colonialness
  1. The state or quality of being colonial.
colonizationism
  1. Advocacy of colonization
coloniality
  1. The quality of being colonial.
  2. Examples:
    1. “In a recent review, we identified a mechanistic approach to studying coloniality which synthesizes two new hypotheses.”
      “For different species, coloniality may be an adaptation for avoidance of predators and for efficient exploitation of food resources.”
colonyhood
  1. The state of being a colony.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Though it was now sovereign, the country still felt the after-effects of colonyhood.”
coloniarch
  1. (obsolete, rare) A colonizer.
coloner
  1. (obsolete) A colonist.
colonialist
colonizationists
  1. plural of colonizationist
colonizations
  1. plural of colonization
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Many critics delineate how a heritage of dual colonizations has left an indelible mark on the Filipino-American psyche.”
      “A further wave of adaptive radiation occurred after one or more colonizations of Australia some 2 to 3 million years later.”
      “Philip's, Newfoundland and Labrador, long before the French and English in the 17th century, and being just one of many Portuguese Colonizations of the Americas.”
colonisations
colonialists
  1. plural of colonialist
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “This was also partly meant to convince the colonialists that the Africans were ready to manage or mismanage their own affairs.”
      “And true to the wish of the colonialists, the natives gave in and later settled on very unfertile soils.”
      “What about suttee in India, a traditional practice abolished by the British colonialists?”
colonialisms
colonialities
  1. plural of coloniality
coloniarchs
  1. plural of coloniarch
colonizers
  1. plural of colonizer
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  3. Examples:
    1. “But when the colonizers appeared, they created power structures that weren't accountable in the same way.”
      “In all years, the community dominants were species resilient to the stress of drawdowns, or good colonizers.”
      “Enterprising traders sailed its coast for centuries, and colonizers plundered its wealth, both material and human.”
colonisers
  1. plural of coloniser
  2. Examples:
    1. “Among the most conspicuous of the first colonisers at Mount St Helens was the common raven, known to eat almost anything, including carrion.”
      “This, in effect, brings into replay the colonial practice of extra-territoriality enjoyed by colonisers and adventurers on foreign soils.”
      “Born in 1922 and crowned in 1941 by French colonisers eager to install a pliable puppet, Sihanouk abdicated the throne in 1955 to contest the country's first elections.”
colonials
  1. plural of colonial
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “These colonials were outnumbered roughly two to one by ex-slaves, most of whom were of Madagascan origin.”
      “European colonials encouraged the Creeks to think of blacks as slaves in order to prevent runaways from seeking refuge within Creek towns.”
      “This picture is complicated by the presence in countries such as France of former colonials.”
colonists
  1. plural of colonist
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “When the colonists arrived, they, too, were sustained by maple syrup due to the scarceness of white sugar.”
      “The Melians were colonists of the Lacedaemonians who would not submit to Athens like the other islanders.”
      “The colonists celebrated it as a traditional English harvest feast, to which they invited the local Wampanoag Indians.”
coloners
  1. plural of coloner
colonies
  1. plural of colony
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  3. Examples:
    1. “This first Georgia slave code, which was not as detailed as the codes of the older slave colonies, was quickly determined to be too lenient.”
      “Nesting data from dispersers and nondispersers came from the same set of colonies and were thus directly comparable.”
      “When the Shyr mutant was grown on this cloudly medium, there was a clear zone surrounding the colonies.”
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