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Adjective
/kəˈlōnyəl/,/-nēəl/,
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Of, relating to, or characteristic of a colony or colonies,
  1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a colony or colonies
    • - British colonial rule
    • - colonial expansion
  2. Relating to the period of the British colonies in America before independence

  3. (esp. of architecture or furniture) Made during or in the style of this period

  4. (of animals or plants) Living in colonies

Noun
  1. A native or inhabitant of a colony

  2. A house built in colonial style

  1. of or relating to or characteristic of or inhabiting a colony
  2. a resident of a colony
  3. of animals who live in colonies, such as ants
  4. composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony; "coral is a colonial organism"
  5. (colonialism) exploitation by a stronger country of weaker one; the use of the weaker country's resources to strengthen and enrich the stronger country
  6. The Northeast Regional is an intercity rail service operated by Amtrak in the Northeastern United States. In the past, it has also been known as the NortheastDirect, Acela Regional, and Regional. It is by far the busiest Amtrak route, carrying 6.9 million passengers in fiscal 2009. ...
  7. The Colonial, also known as the Colonial Express, was a service of the Pennsylvania Railroad and New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad between Union Station in Washington, DC and South Station in Boston, Massachusetts. It was operated until 1973 by Amtrak.
  8. The Colonial was an American automobile which was manufactured from 1920 until 1921.
  9. The Colonial in Indianapolis, Indiana is a complex of buildings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
  10. Colonialism is the building and maintaining of colonies in one territory by people from another territory. ...
  11. (Colonials (figure skating)) The Colonials is a synchronized ice skating team from West Acton, Massachusetts. The Colonial's junior team received second place at the junior world qualifier in 2007, allowing the team to be a part of the world junior team.
  12. A person from a country that is or was controlled by another; A house that is built in a style reminiscent of the period of the colonization of New England; of or pertaining to a colony; of or pertaining to a period when a country or territory was a colony; of or relating to the original ...
  13. (colonially) In a colonial manner
  14. (Colonialism) (modern) The attempt by a country to establish settlements and impose political and economic control and principles.  Often associated with the European movement beginning in the 16^th c. ...
  15. (Colonialism) The forcible takeover of the land of indigenous peoples and the exploitation of the land and the people, ignoring the rights of indigenous people. *
  16. (Colonialism) The systematic exercise of political and military authority of an intrusive group of foreign origin over the population of a given territory. Often involves the colonizer asserting social and cultural domination of the indigenous population.
  17. (COLONIALISM) The term refers broadly and generally to the habit of powerful civilizations to "colonize" less powerful ones. ...
  18. (Colonialism) A policy by which a nation maintains or extends its control over foreign dependencies (my note: this would be the case of the British in the Americas, India, Africa, and Australia. ...
  19. (Colonialism) A process by which a foreign power dominates and exploits an indigenous group by seizing their land and resources, extracting their wealth and using them as cheap labour. ...
  20. (Colonialism) A society that seeks to expand its influence by the use of settlement or conquest and through subjugation of the conquered territory to their authority, control, belief system or laws. ...
  21. (Colonialism) Control by a country over a colony it has claimed ownership of.
  22. (Colonialism) Permanent rule of one country or region by another, usually based on conquest. Feature of European expansion since sixteenth century, as Western powers took control of people and territory across much of globe. Last wave in Africa, late-nineteenth century. ...
  23. (Colonialism) The direct political control of a people by a foreign state; control of a non European people by a European state or the USA.
  24. (Colonialism) The historical process through which dominant groups have assimilated, dominated, and subjugated less powerful ones. ...
  25. (Colonialism) The more or less organized system of occupation and exploitation of foreign territories through settlement and conquest, especially as practiced by Western states since 1492.