colonizableadj.
/ˈkɒlənʌɪzəbl/, U.S. /ˈkɑləˌnaɪzəb(ə)l/ Able to be colonized (in various senses); suitable or available for colonization.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [adjective] > colonized > colonizable
colonizable1804
1804 Ann. Rev. & Hist. Lit. 1803 2 303/2 It is for Great Britain to aggrandize and strengthen herself also; by the occupation of such colonizable territory as will best contribute to increase her commerce and resident wealth.
1883 G. Allen Colin Clout's Cal. xxxvii. 211 To every part of the colonizable world.
1927 Economist 19 Nov. 865/1 [In North-West Africa] France, with no surplus population to provide for, holds all the colonisable lands, while Italy, with her ever more pressing problem of congestion, has secured nothing but..Tripoli.
1934 Jrnl. Ecol. 22 435 The bank is colonisable only by species with a very particular kind of tolerance.
2012 P. Saraceno Beyond Stars viii. 254 One day it might even be possible to modify the atmosphere of Mars by making it denser, so increasing the greenhouse effect and making the planet colonizable by humans.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).
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