| 单词 | colonization |
| 释义 | colonization (once / 2012 pages) n Colonization is the act of setting up a colony away from one's place of origin. Remember when the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock? That was the beginning of a period of colonization. You may have heard of an ant colony, which is a community of ants that decided to set up shop in a particular place; this is an example of ant colonization. With humans, colonization is sometimes seen as a negative act because it tends to involve an invading culture establishing political control over an indigenous population (the people living there before the arrival of the settlers). WORD FAMILYcolonization: colonizations+/colonial: colonialism, colonially, colonials/colonialism: colonialisms, colonialist, neocolonialism/colonialist: colonialists/colonisation: colonisations, decolonisation/colonise: colonisation, colonised, coloniser, colonises, colonising, decolonise/coloniser: colonisers/colonist: colonists/colonize: colonization, colonized, colonizer, colonizes, colonizing, decolonize/colonizer: colonizers/colony: colonial, colonies, colonise, colonist, colonize/decolonize: decolonization, decolonized, decolonizing USAGE EXAMPLESThe Balfour Declaration was issued at the height of the imperial age, when colonization was still in good odor. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) Manifesto signers pledge “to resist the rising cultural imperialism of Western powers whose governments seek nothing less than the ideological colonization of the family.” Salon(Dec 15, 2016) This time around, the threat is the colonization of universities by overzealous business types. Nature(Dec 13, 2016) n the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies the British colonization of America Syn|Hypo|Hyper colonisation, settlement population the act of populating (causing to live in a place) constitution, establishment, formation, organisation, organization the act of forming or establishing something |
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