colonialismnoun [ U ]
uk/kəˈləʊ.ni.ə.lɪ.zəm/us/kəˈloʊ.ni.ə.lɪ.zəm/the belief in and support for the system of one country controlling another
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Colonisation & self-government
- annex
- autonomous
- autonomy
- client state
- colonial
- decolonization
- dependency
- devolution
- devolve
- devolve sth to sb
- Independence Day
- nationalism
- nationalist
- neocolonialism
- non-aligned
- self-rule
- separatism
- separatist
- the British Empire
- the free world
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Examples from literature
- Ever since World War II the era of colonialism has been on the wane.
- That was to me a subject of intense interest, now that I was fully aware of the situation after a hundred and fifty years of exploitation, seventy-five years of French domination, and thirty years of colonialism.
- The Democratic party has declared such a policy to be only imperialism and colonialism under another name.
- The pioneers had in a measure outgrown the colonialism of the thirteen original commonwealths.