英语词汇“colonization”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

colony /kolˈə-ni/

noun

A name vaguely applied to a state's dependencies overseas or abroad (distinguished from a dominion)

A military settlement planted in subject territory (Roman hist)

A band of emigrants or their new home, connected with but without political ties to their city of origin (Gr hist)

A body of people settled in a foreign country, or forming a separate ethnic, cultural or occupational group

The settlement so formed

The place they inhabit

A number of organisms, esp of one kind, living together as a community (biology)

A coenobium

A group or company of Beaver Scouts

ORIGIN: L colōnia, from colōnus a husbandman, from colere to cultivate, inhabit

colonial /kə-lōˈni-əl/ adjective

Relating to, of the nature of, or dating from the time when a territory was, a colony

noun

An inhabitant, citizen or member of a colony, a colonist

colōˈnialism noun

A trait of colonial life or speech

The colonial system (see below)

The policy or practice of obtaining, or maintaining hold over, colonies, esp with the purpose of exploiting them

colōnˈialist adjective and noun

colōnˈially adverb

colˈonist noun

An inhabitant of a colony

A voter set up for election purposes (US historical)

A weed of cultivated ground (botany)

colonīzāˈtion or colonīsāˈtion noun

The act or practice of colonizing
State of being colonized

colˈonize or colˈonise transitive verb

To plant or establish a colony in
To form into a colony
To place voters in an area to decide a closely-fought election (US)
(of plants, animals, etc) to spread into (a new habitat)

intransitive verb

To settle as colonists

colˈonizer or colˈoniser noun

colonial animals plural noun

Organisms consisting of numerous individuals in bodily union

colonial experience man noun (old Aust)

A jackaroo

colonial goose noun (old Aust and NZ)

A joint of mutton, boned, stuffed and roasted

Colonial Office noun (historical)

The government office dealing with the colonies

colonial system noun

The theory that the settlements abroad should be treated as proprietary domains exploited for the benefit of the mother country

colony collapse disorder noun

A serious and unexplained disease capable of bringing about the complete destruction of bee colonies

colony stimulating factors plural noun (immunology)

Substances which cause blood-forming stem cells to proliferate and differentiate into colonies of mature blood cells

the Colonies

Formerly, the subject territories of the British Empire
The thirteen states that formed the United States of America at the Declaration of Independence in 1776