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colonist
[ kol-uh-nist ]
noun
- an inhabitant of a colony.
- a member of a colonizing expedition.
- (often initial capital letter) an inhabitant of the 13 British colonies that became the United States of America.
colonist
/ ˈɒəɪ /
noun
- a person who settles or colonizes an area
- an inhabitant or member of a colony
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Two years later, they opened fire on a group of colonists who were taunting them by throwing rocks and snowballs.
Mandatory celibacy does not go over well, a joke that springs from the novel’s note that the colonists had no intellectually stimulating hobbies.
Soon after, colonists started taking over Indigenous lands and enslaving people to cultivate their coffee plantations.
Early written records of Cape Verdean music are scarce - the Portuguese colonists did not document life and society on Cape Verde other than records of taxes and commodities.
Fruitcakes came to America with the European colonists, and the rising tide of emigration from Britain to New England closely mirrored an influx of cheap sugar from the Caribbean.
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