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/ˈkälənist/,
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colonists, plural;
  1. A settler in or inhabitant of a colony

  1. settler: a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country
  2. 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. ...
  3. A settler is a person who has migrated to an area and established permanent residence there, often to colonize the area. Settlers are generally people who take up residence on land and cultivate it, as opposed to nomads. ...
  4. The Colonists are an extraterrestrial species in the science fiction television show, The X-Files, and also in the first feature film. The mystery revolving around who they are and what they are planning is revealed across the course of the series. ...
  5. A person who is a founder of a colony; The original persons of a colony
  6. (COLONISTS) By 1885, the U.S. persecution of the Church for polygamy resulted in many Church leaders in the United States going into foreign countries to find homes for their multiple families, and some of them founded Colonia Ju rez in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico. ...
  7. (colonists) the people from other countries who settled in the New World
  8. A butterfly that establishes a temporary or permanent population in a new area.
  9. German word for "settler, tenant farmer."
  10. one of a group of people
  11. A person who lived in one of the 13 colonies.