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单词 colonialist
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Definition of colonialist in English:

colonialist

noun kəˈləʊnɪəlɪstkəˈloʊniələst
  • A person who supports the practice of gaining political control over other countries and occupying them with settlers.

    16th century Spanish colonialists in the Caribbean
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He could easily have been depicted as a racist colonialist.
    • The song was originally written to mock the colonialists.
    • The colonialist has a smug, secure sneer on his face, like a dire dare to retaliate.
    • The colonialists and the resistance both spoke Portuguese, but they fought a bitter war of national liberation.
    • Avoiding the dramatization of the noble savage, or the evil colonialists, he opts for a more subtle evocation.
    • The colonialist never seriously promoted the religious conversion of the colonized.
    • Like the colonialists of yore, they have their own agenda, an agenda that might fit a little too snugly into the right wing's overall vision for the country.
    • For the child of the colonialist, violence was present in the situation itself, and was a social force which produced him.
    • They have the desire to carve a tribal land from out of the three countries created somewhat arbitrarily by the colonialists.
    • He suggests that the ideological damage done by the missionaries exceeded the material damage inflicted by the colonialists.
adjective kəˈləʊnɪəlɪstkəˈloʊniələst
  • Characteristic of or involving the practice of gaining political control over other countries and occupying them with settlers.

    the nation's colonialist history
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In part, it is a way of putting our capabilities for liberating ourselves from the colonialist yoke to the test.
    • It is a precondition for the ruling elite's ability to pursue a militarist and colonialist strategy.
    • His seminal book postulated that depictions of the East by Western painters and writers had a Eurocentric, colonialist subtext.
    • Their treatment of indigenous peoples closely follows the example of all colonialist powers.
    • It is not too much to say that the colonialist condition and its sectarian history drove a wedge between the populace and its writers.
    • It is the moral camouflage of an aggressive national movement whose purpose is to obscure its colonialist, expansionist nature.
    • They denounced the fundamental aspect of the colonialist and reactionary plot to detach the struggle for unity from the struggle for liberation.
    • There is a predatory and illegal war of colonialist plunder being waged by this administration.
    • There is an inevitable logic to such colonialist enterprises.
    • It is giving the due respect to hundreds of millions of human beings who demonstrated against this colonialist war.

Rhymes

ceremonialist, neocolonialist
 
 

Definition of colonialist in US English:

colonialist

nounkəˈlōnēələstkəˈloʊniələst
  • A person who supports the practice of gaining political control over other countries and occupying them with settlers.

    16th century Spanish colonialists in the Caribbean
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The song was originally written to mock the colonialists.
    • The colonialist has a smug, secure sneer on his face, like a dire dare to retaliate.
    • For the child of the colonialist, violence was present in the situation itself, and was a social force which produced him.
    • He suggests that the ideological damage done by the missionaries exceeded the material damage inflicted by the colonialists.
    • The colonialist never seriously promoted the religious conversion of the colonized.
    • Avoiding the dramatization of the noble savage, or the evil colonialists, he opts for a more subtle evocation.
    • Like the colonialists of yore, they have their own agenda, an agenda that might fit a little too snugly into the right wing's overall vision for the country.
    • The colonialists and the resistance both spoke Portuguese, but they fought a bitter war of national liberation.
    • He could easily have been depicted as a racist colonialist.
    • They have the desire to carve a tribal land from out of the three countries created somewhat arbitrarily by the colonialists.
adjectivekəˈlōnēələstkəˈloʊniələst
  • Characteristic of or involving the practice of gaining political control over other countries and occupying them with settlers.

    the nation's colonialist history
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is the moral camouflage of an aggressive national movement whose purpose is to obscure its colonialist, expansionist nature.
    • There is an inevitable logic to such colonialist enterprises.
    • Their treatment of indigenous peoples closely follows the example of all colonialist powers.
    • There is a predatory and illegal war of colonialist plunder being waged by this administration.
    • They denounced the fundamental aspect of the colonialist and reactionary plot to detach the struggle for unity from the struggle for liberation.
    • In part, it is a way of putting our capabilities for liberating ourselves from the colonialist yoke to the test.
    • It is a precondition for the ruling elite's ability to pursue a militarist and colonialist strategy.
    • It is not too much to say that the colonialist condition and its sectarian history drove a wedge between the populace and its writers.
    • His seminal book postulated that depictions of the East by Western painters and writers had a Eurocentric, colonialist subtext.
    • It is giving the due respect to hundreds of millions of human beings who demonstrated against this colonialist war.
 
 
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