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.