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These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out.
Emily Greene Balch

Meaning of "colonial" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF COLONIAL

colonial  [kəˈləʊnɪəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COLONIAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Colonial can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES COLONIAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Colonial

Colonial or The Colonial may refer to: ▪ Colonial, of, relating to, or characteristic of a colony ▪ Colonial history of the United States, the period of American history from the 17th century to 1776, under the rule of Great Britain, France and Spain ▪ Spanish colonization of the Americas, the period of history of Spanish rule over most of the Americas, from the 15th century through the late 19th century ▪ Colonialism, the extension of political control to new areas ▪ Colonial troops, any of various military units recruited from, or used as garrison troops in, colonial territories ▪ George Washington Colonials, the nickname for the athletic teams of George Washington University, Washington, DC.

Definition of colonial in the English dictionary

The first definition of colonial in the dictionary is of, characteristic of, relating to, possessing, or inhabiting a colony or colonies. Other definition of colonial is characteristic of or relating to the 13 British colonies that became the United States of America. Colonial is also of or relating to the colonies of the British Empire.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COLONIAL


anconeal
æŋˈkəʊnɪəl
anticolonial
ˌæntɪkəˈləʊnɪəl
antimonial
ˌæntɪˈməʊnɪəl
baronial
bəˈrəʊnɪəl
ceremonial
ˌsɛrɪˈməʊnɪəl
coronial
kəˈrəʊnɪəl
hegemonial
ˌhɛɡɪˈməʊnɪəl
intercolonial
ˌɪntəkəˈləʊnɪəl
intraperitoneal
ˌɪntrəˌpɛrɪˈtəʊnɪəl
matrimonial
ˌmætrɪˈməʊnɪəl
monial
ˈməʊnɪəl
neocolonial
ˌniːəʊkəˈləʊnɪəl
oogonial
ˌəʊəˈɡəʊnɪəl
patrimonial
ˌpætrɪˈməʊnɪəl
perigonial
ˌperɪˈɡəʊnɪəl
precolonial
ˌpriːkəˈləʊnɪəl
semicolonial
ˌsɛmɪkəˈləʊnɪəl
spermatogonial
ˌspɜːmətəˈɡəʊnɪəl
sporogonial
ˌspɔːrəʊˈɡəʊnɪəl
testimonial
ˌtɛstɪˈməʊnɪəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COLONIAL

colones
colonial experience
colonial experiencer
colonial goose
Colonial Office
colonialism
colonialist
colonialistic
colonialize
colonially
colonialness
colonic
colonic irrigation
Colonies
colonisable
colonisation
colonisationist
colonise
coloniser
colonist

WORDS THAT END LIKE COLONIAL

bicentennial
biennial
carpogonial
centennial
congenial
cranial
denial
domanial
extracranial
finial
genial
intracranial
menial
millennial
perennial
post-colonial
quinquennial
transcranial
triennial
venial

Synonyms and antonyms of colonial in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «colonial» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COLONIAL

Find out the translation of colonial to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of colonial from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «colonial» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

殖民主义的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

colonial
570 millions of speakers

English

colonial
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

औपनिवेशिक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الاستعمار
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

колониальная
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

colonial
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ঔপনিবেশিক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

colonial
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Penjajah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kolonial-
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

植民地の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

식민지의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kolonial
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thuộc địa
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

காலனித்துவ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

औपनिवेशिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sömürge
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

coloniale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kolonialne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

колоніальна
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

colonial
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αποικιακή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

koloniale
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

koloniala
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

koloni
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of colonial

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COLONIAL»

The term «colonial» is very widely used and occupies the 9.698 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COLONIAL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «colonial» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «colonial» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about colonial

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10 QUOTES WITH «COLONIAL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word colonial.
1
Mahmoud Abbas
I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.
2
Chinua Achebe
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
3
Daniel Alarcon
I love to walk through the streets of Jesus Maria and Pueblo Libre. The Spanish colonial buildings are in bright colors, two stories high, with these intricate wooden, windowed balconies.
4
George Ayittey
There's a belief that since Africa got a raw deal from the colonial West, then the Chinese must be Africa's best friend. But the evidence doesn't show that, and the main criticism is that they are building infrastructure in exchange for Africa's resources in deals that are structured to favor China.
5
Emily Greene Balch
These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out.
6
Thomas P.M. Barnett
Once Europe's colonial empires were sent into deep decline, thanks to World War II, America became globalization's primary replicating force, integrating Asia into its low-end production networks across the second half of the twentieth century - just like Europe had integrated the U.S. before.
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Ahmed Ben Bella
Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
8
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.
9
Alice Morse Earle
There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of Jamestown, New Amsterdam, and Boston, and the infancy of those born in the first years of colonial life in this strange new world.
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Alice Morse Earle
The brank, or scold's bridle, was unknown in America in its English shape: though from colonial records we learn that scolding women were far too plentiful, and were gagged for that annoying and irritating habit.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COLONIAL»

Discover the use of colonial in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to colonial and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A History of the Book in America: Volume 1, The Colonial ...
Volume 1 of A History of the Book in America encompasses seventeenth and eighteenth century book history.
Hugh Amory, David D. Hall, 2000
2
Post-colonial Studies: The Key Concepts
This volume provides an essential key to understanding the issues that characterize post-colonialism, explaining what it is, where it is encountered and why it is crucial in forging new cultural identities, Among the subjects defined and ...
Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin, 2000
3
Colonial Masculinity: The 'manly Englishman' and The' ...
It argues that the emerging dynamics between colonial and nationalist politics in the 1880s and 1890s in India is best captured in the logic of colonial masculinity, and it traces the impact of colonial masculinity in four controversies: ...
Mrinalini Sinha, 1995
4
The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-colonial ...
This book is brilliant not only for its incisive analysis, but for its accessibility for readers new to the field.
Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin, 2002
5
Africa Under Colonial Domination, 1880-1935
SPECIAL COMMENDATION in Africa's 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century. The series is illustrated throughout with maps and black and white photographs.
A. Adu Boahen, 1990
6
Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and ...
A groundbreaking history of the role of science and medicine in the American colonization of the Philippines from 1898 through the 1930s. "It's difficult to overstate the significance of this book.
Warwick Anderson, 2006
7
Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens ...
Green Imperialism is the first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, concentrating especially on its hitherto unexplained colonial and global aspects.
Richard H. Grove, 1995
8
The Post-colonial Studies Reader
This collection covers a huge range of topics and issues, and features nearly ninety of the most widely read, influential and innovative pieces of writing.
Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin, 1995
9
Colonial Brazil
Colonial Brazil is a selection of chapters from the Cambridge History of Latin America volumes 1 and 2 brought together to provide a continous history of the Portuguese Empire in Brazil from the beginning of the sixteenth to the beginning ...
Leslie Bethell, 1987
10
A Short History of British Colonial Policy
The first published historical survey of British colonial policy from 1457-1897, first published in 1897.
Hugh Edward Egerton, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COLONIAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term colonial is used in the context of the following news items.
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Namibia: A unique snapshot of German colonial Africa
Left to quaff the dregs of my beer, I pondered my odd but intriguing day spent in Swakopmund, a former German colonial town on the shores of ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
2
Colonial allocates Cycle 40 shipments on main gasoline line
July 7 (Reuters) - Colonial Pipeline Co is allocating space for Cycle 40 shipments on Line 1, its main gasoline line, according to a notice sent to ... «Reuters Africa, Jul 15»
3
Boulevard project in Colonial Heights delayed again
COLONIAL HEIGHTS — The Boulevard Modernization Project is inching its way to completion, and is estimated to be completed this fall. «Progress Index, Jul 15»
4
Can Tho to demolish colonial school following France's notice
French people built the school in 1917 and named it Collège de Can Tho, which gave it the colonial architecture of the 20th century and made it ... «Thanh Nien Daily, Jul 15»
5
Greene Co. Furnishings Featured At Colonial Williamsburg Museum
Ron Hurst, vice president of collections, conservation & museums and chief curator at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, said the exhibit ... «Greeneville Sun, Jul 15»
6
'Japan tries to justify colonial-era forced labor'
Criticism of the Japanese government continues to grow here after it tried to justify the use of forced labor during Tokyo's 1910-45 colonial rule ... «Korea Times, Jul 15»
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Gujarat government worse than erstwhile British colonial rulers …
The Gujarat Congress on Monday slammed the state government over the recent police action against the villagers in Kheda and Ahmedabad ... «Daily News & Analysis, Jul 15»
8
Fallen power pole shuts down Colonial Drive in east Orange County
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. —A fallen power pole has shut down East Colonial Drive in Orange County. Upload breaking news photos and video ... «WESH Orlando, Jul 15»
9
Morgan Lenahan of Haddon Township is NJ.com's fan-selected …
Morgan Lenahan of Haddon Township is NJ.com's fan-selected Colonial Conference Athlete of the Year. Morgan Lenahan of Haddon ... «NJ.com, Jul 15»
10
Ceesay On Multiple Identities of Traditional Colonial Chiefs
A Gambian Historian and Curator have extensively discussed the multiple identities of the traditional colonial chiefs at a conference held at the ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»

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