colonizer
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- noun
- /ˈkɑːləˌnaɪzər/
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colonizador
- In the 19th century, many Europeans became colonizers in Africa, establishing territories for their nations.
- Spanish colonizers
- a former colonizer
- Portuguese colonizers
On the one hand, the villains of the film are the colonizers, you know, the British.
- On the one hand, the villains of the film are the colonizers, you know, the British.
- So it's like not all colonizers are bad.
- They're a guest and they have to somehow mediate between these colonizers and the colonized.
- And it was shaping up very clearly to be a colonizer and colonized romance.
- They have, they have to hold on to Israel being the oppressor, the patriarchy, the colonizer, the bad guy.
- We were building something together that a French colonizer came in and caught it early and tried to destroy it.
- Just everybody can look it up when the colonizers, and I don't say that in a rude way.
- Aggressors, colonizers, pawns of their national or meta national politics.
Examples
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Historians often analyze the impact of colonizers on indigenous cultures during the age of exploration.
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But at this historical moment, it was a weapon that these particular colonizers chose not to use.
Academic text (1997) -
Cooperation between the colonizer and the African actors was, by its very nature, ambivalent.
Academic text (1992) -
In the first place, the colonies were administered as extensions of the colonizer's burgeoning industrial development.
Academic text (1993) -
In the Amazon, lost tribes are the product of centuries of retreat and resistance against colonizers and nation-states.
Academic text (1997) -
Today, locals regularly employ slash-and-burn agriculture, a technique introduced by Spanish colonizers in the 1600s.
Academic text (2008) -
The rocky relationship between the American Indians and the colonizers of America certainly meets the criteria of Chodorow's disrupted community.
Fiction book (1999) -
In brief, the brutality and oppressiveness of the Portuguese colonizers prompted a militant, radical response from Frelimo.
Academic text (1992) -
The colonizers implemented new agricultural practices that changed the local economy of the region.
Synonyms
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4.1
A person who moves to a new area to live and set up a home
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4.4
A person who moves to live in a new colony from another country
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4.4
A person who is among the first to move to and prepare new land
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7.8
A person who wants their country to control and rule other countries, often by force
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7.8
A person who supports a country taking control of other lands
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Colonizer comes from the Latin colonus, which meant 'farmer' or 'settler', and from colony, a place where people live in a new settlement. That's why a colonizer is someone who goes to a new land to set up and often control a settlement there.