| 单词 | colonist |
| 释义 | colonist (once / 603 pages) n A colonist is a member of a government-backed group that settles in a new country or region. The land that's claimed by a colonist is usually already occupied by another group of people. A colonist can also be called a settler, someone who helps start a settlement in a new land. You might think of colonial America and the original colonists, British subjects who settled along the eastern seaboard and claimed the land as their own, despite the presence of native people. Throughout history, colonists have tended to come from Western countries. At the heart of the word colonist is the Latin root colere, "to inhabit, tend, or guard." WORD FAMILYcolonist: colonists+/colonial: colonialism, colonially, colonials/colonialism: colonialisms, colonialist, neocolonialism/colonialist: colonialists/colonisation: colonisations, decolonisation/colonise: colonisation, colonised, coloniser, colonises, colonising, decolonise/coloniser: colonisers/colonization: colonizations/colonize: colonization, colonized, colonizer, colonizes, colonizing, decolonize/colonizer: colonizers/colony: colonial, colonies, colonise, colonist, colonize/decolonize: decolonization, decolonized, decolonizing USAGE EXAMPLESBruce Beresford’s remarkable adaptation of Brian Moore’s novel Black Robe depicts an uneasy alliance between early colonists and the Algonquian people. The Guardian(Dec 29, 2016) Forced off the land by colonists and exposed to new diseases, the Indigenous population shrank drastically. Seattle Times(Dec 15, 2016) The rock’s lower reaches are still dominated by Fort Frederick, a vast bastion built by Dutch colonists in the 1670s. Washington Post(Dec 08, 2016) n a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper settler John Endecott born in England; in 1629 he became the founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (1588-1665) Anne HutchinsonAmerican colonist (born in England) who was banished from Boston for her religious views (1591-1643) Peter MinnewitDutch colonist who bought Manhattan from the Native Americans for the equivalent of $24 (1580-1638) Miles StandishEnglish colonist in America; leader of the Pilgrims in the early days of the Plymouth Colony (1584-1656) Roger WilliamsEnglish clergyman and colonist who was expelled from Massachusetts for criticizing Puritanism; he founded Providence in 1636 and obtained a royal charter for Rhode Island in 1663 (1603-1683) Edward WinslowEnglish colonial administrator who traveled to America on the Mayflower and served as the first governor of the Plymouth Colony (1595-1655) Daniel Boonean American pioneer and guide and explorer (1734-1820) James BowieUnited States pioneer and hero of the Texas revolt against Mexico; he shared command of the garrison that resisted the Mexican attack on the Alamo where he died (1796-1836) Martha Jane BurkeUnited States frontierswoman and legendary figure of the Wild West noted for her marksmanship (1852-1903) Christopher CarsonUnited States frontiersman who guided Fremont's expeditions in the 1840s and served as a Union general in the American Civil War (1809-1868) Johnny AppleseedUnited States pioneer who planted apple trees as he traveled (1774-1845) David CrockettUnited States frontiersman and Tennessee politician who died at the siege of the Alamo (1786-1836) Pilgrim, Pilgrim Father one of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620 pioneerone the first colonists or settlers in a new territory sourdougha settler or prospector (especially in western United States or northwest Canada and Alaska) homesteader, nester, squattersomeone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it bushmana dweller in the Australian bush country backwoodsman, frontiersman, mountain mana man who lives on the frontier frontierswomana woman who lives on the frontier migrant, migrator traveler who moves from one region or country to another |
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