colonial
adjEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁-e-ti Proto-Italic *kʷelō Latin colō Latin colōnus Latin colōniader. Middle English colane English colony Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English colonial From colony + -al.
Definitions
Of or pertaining to a colony.
Of or pertaining to a period when a country or territory was a colony.
- India’s half-hour zone dates back to colonial rule of India and the era when ever-faster steamships and trains were shrinking the world.
Of or pertaining to the ideals of colonialism.
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Of or relating to the original Thirteen Colonies of the USA.
Of or relating to the style of architecture prevalent at about the time of the Revolution.
Tending to form colonies (especially of cells).
A person from a country that is or was controlled by another.
- None of them are, so to speak, idle men. Many of them are emigrants, not of the soil born and bred colonials.
- The rest of us had tea and finger sandwiches with members of the royal household, which was very elegant but hard on some of us ill-schooled colonials.
A house that is built in a style reminiscent of the period of the colonization of New…
A house that is built in a style reminiscent of the period of the colonization of New England.
A coin or postage stamp issued by a colony.
The neighborhood
- neighborcolonization
Derived
allocolonial, anticolonial, autocolonial, biocolonial, colonial bent, colonial blue, colonial empire, colonial goose, colonialise, colonialism, colonialist, colonialistic, colonialistically, coloniality, colonialization, colonialize, colonial lag, colonially, colonialness, colonial salmon, concolonial, countercolonial, cybercolonial, decolonial, Eurocolonial, French colonial empire, heterocolonial, homocolonial, intercolonial, intracolonial, microcolonial, multicolonial, neocolonial, noncolonial, paracolonial, postcolonial, precolonial, pseudocolonial, retro-colonial, semicolonial · +5 more
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A definitional loop anchored at colonial. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at colonial. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at colonial
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA