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/ˈkäləˌnīz/,
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colonising, present participle; colonized, past tense; colonizes, 3rd person singular present; colonized, past participle; colonizing, present participle; colonises, 3rd person singular present; colonised, past tense; colonised, past participle;
  1. (of a country or its citizens) Send a group of settlers to (a place) and establish political control over it
    • - the Greeks colonized Sicily and southern Italy
  2. Come to settle among and establish political control over (the indigenous people of an area)
    • - a white family that tries to colonize a Caribbean island
  3. Appropriate (a place or domain) for one's own use

  4. (of a plant or animal) Establish itself in an area
    • - mussels can colonize even the most inhospitable rock surfaces
    • - insect borers colonize in rotted shoreline deadfalls
  1. colonized: inhabited by colonists
  2. Colonization, (or Colonisation in British English), occurs whenever any one or more species populate an area. The term, which is derived from the Latin colere, "to inhabit, cultivate, frequent, practice, tend, guard, respect," originally related to humans. ...
  3. (Colonisation (biology)) Colonisation is the process in biology by which a species spreads into new areas, regions, and continents.
  4. (Colonising) In politics and history, a colony is a territory under the immediate political control of a state. For colonies in antiquity, city-states would often found their own colonies. ...
  5. (colonise) To settle (somewhere) with colonists; To settle (a species, group of people, or the like) in a new place as a colony; To begin a new colony
  6. Colonisation is the process of establishing a colony in a new country; of replacing the original culture with that of the colonisers. ...
  7. (Colonisation) Microorganisms that establish themselves in a particular environment such as a body surface without producing disease
  8. (Colonisation) the process in which microorganisms live and reproduce in or on either the human body without causing disease, or an inanimate object such as a disinfection machine.
  9. (colonisation) the process by which a species enters a new area. Some species are good colonizers because they disperse easily and reproduce quickly. Other species are poor colonisers because they only disperse and reproduce very slowly.
  10. Colonisation is the process of settlement in a new country and the formation of a new community which is either fully or partly subject to the state from which the settlers emigrated. ...
  11. Bacteria which exist in an area (wound) in sufficient number to cause local or systemic signs and symptoms; not an infection.