| 单词 | colonial |
| 释义 | colonial (once / 380 pages) adjn The colonial period of United States history occurred before 1776, when America was still 13 colonies under British rule. You can use the word colonial to describe an inhabitant of a colony ruled by another country, but you wouldn’t call a painter living in an artists' colony a colonial. On the other hand, ants, which live in ant colonies, are colonial insects. British colonial is a style of furniture the British favored for their houses and tents in India or on safari in Africa — when India and parts of Africa were British colonies. WORD FAMILYcolonial: colonialism, colonially, colonials+/colonialism: colonialisms, colonialist, neocolonialism/colonialist: colonialists/colonisation: colonisations, decolonisation/colonise: colonisation, colonised, coloniser, colonises, colonising, decolonise/coloniser: colonisers/colonist: colonists/colonization: colonizations/colonize: colonization, colonized, colonizer, colonizes, colonizing, decolonize/colonizer: colonizers/colony: colonial, colonies, colonise, colonist, colonize/decolonize: decolonization, decolonized, decolonizing USAGE EXAMPLESHowever, this is not just about Israel’s metastasizing colonial settlement project, important though that is. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) I much admired two books about indigenous peoples and colonial histories. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) There is a large Malian community in France, the former colonial power, which supports their relatives back home by sending money. BBC(Dec 30, 2016) 1adj of or relating to or characteristic of or inhabiting a colony 2adj composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony coral is a colonial organism Syn compound complex complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts 3adj of animals who live in colonies, such as ants 4n a resident of a colony Hyper occupant, occupier, resident someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there |
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