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I think it is the easiest mentality for a human being to be either colonized or to colonize. The structure of either the slave or the master seems to be the simplest and the most relaxing one to slip into. Either you are a slave, and you don't have to think for yourself, or you're a master, and you don't have to work for yourself.
Alice Oswald

Meaning of "colonized" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF COLONIZED

colonized  [ˈkɒləˌnaɪzd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COLONIZED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Colonized is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES COLONIZED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

colonized

Colony

In politics and history, a colony is a territory under the immediate political control of a state, distinct from the home territory of the sovereign. For colonies in antiquity, city-states would often found their own colonies. Some colonies were historically countries, while others were territories without definite statehood from their inception. The metropolitan state is the state that owns the colony. In Ancient Greece, the city that founded a colony was called the metropolis. Mother country is a reference to the metropolitan state from the point of view of citizens who live in its colony. There is a United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories. Unlike a puppet state or satellite state, a colony has no independent international representation, and its top-level administration is under direct control of the metropolitan state. The term informal colony is used by some historians to refer to a country under the de facto control of another state, although this term is often contentious.

Definition of colonized in the English dictionary

The first definition of colonized in the dictionary is settled as a colony. Other definition of colonized is subject to the rule of an another country. Colonized is also inhabited by newly established plants or animals.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COLONIZED


agonised
ˈæɡəˌnaɪzd
Americanized
əˈmerɪkəˌnaɪzd
Balkanised
ˈbɔːlkəˌnaɪzd
Balkanized
ˈbɔːlkəˌnaɪzd
disorganized
dɪsˈɔːɡəˌnaɪzd
galvanized
ˈɡælvəˌnaɪzd
homogenized
həˈmɒdʒəˌnaɪzd
organized
ˈɔːɡəˌnaɪzd
siliconised
ˈsɪlɪkəˌnaɪzd
siliconized
ˈsɪlɪkəˌnaɪzd
unhomogenised
ˌʌnhəˈmɒdʒəˌnaɪzd
unhomogenized
ʌnhəˈmɒdʒəˌnaɪzd
unmodernised
ʌnˈmɒdəˌnaɪzd
unorganised
ʌnˈɔːɡəˌnaɪzd
unorganized
ʌnˈɔːɡəˌnaɪzd
unpatronised
ʌnˈpætrəˌnaɪzd
unpatronized
ʌnˈpætrəˌnaɪzd
unsynchronised
ʌnˈsɪnkrəˌnaɪzd
unsynchronized
ʌnˈsɪnkrəˌnaɪzd
well-organised
ˌwelˈɔːɡəˌnaɪzd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COLONIZED

colonialist
colonialistic
colonialize
colonially
colonialness
colonic
colonic irrigation
Colonies
colonisable
colonisation
colonisationist
colonise
coloniser
colonist
colonitis
colonizable
colonization
colonizationist
colonize
colonizer

WORDS THAT END LIKE COLONIZED

agonized
authorized
customized
heparinized
industrialized
inorganized
non-unionized
pedestrianized
personalized
recognized
sized
specialized
unauthorized
unimmunized
unrecognized
unromanized
unscrutinized
well-organized
westernized
womanized

Synonyms and antonyms of colonized in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «COLONIZED»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «colonized» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of colonized

Translation of «colonized» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COLONIZED

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

Translator English - Chinese

殖民
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

colonizado
570 millions of speakers

English

colonized
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

उपनिवेश
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

استعمرت
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

колонизировали
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

colonizado
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অধ্যুষিত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

colonisé
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dijajah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

kolonisiert
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

植民地化
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

식민지
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dijajah
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thuộc địa
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

காலனியாதிக்கத்திற்கு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वसाहत
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kolonize
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

colonizzato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

skolonizowane
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

колонізували
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

colonizat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αποίκισαν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

gekoloniseer
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

koloniseras
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kolonis
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of colonized

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COLONIZED»

The term «colonized» is quite widely used and occupies the 51.426 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COLONIZED» OVER TIME

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

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9 QUOTES WITH «COLONIZED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word colonized.
1
Mustafa Akyol
Turkey has never been colonized, so it remained as an independent nation after the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
2
Sherman Alexie
We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization.
3
Hervey Allen
In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized.
4
George Blagden
The Vikings colonized Britain, and a lot of our modern day towns are named after Viking names that settled these big towns.
5
James Frey
America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come here in order to practice their religious beliefs as they please. Our culture has always been, and will most likely always be, profoundly influenced by religion.
6
Al Jourgensen
I think we were colonized by aliens 250,000 years ago, and they genetically altered our DNA to be primates into homo erectus and humans. I'm very interested in how we evolved so suddenly, which obviously ties in with the alien thing.
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Ferdinand Marcos
Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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Alice Oswald
I think it is the easiest mentality for a human being to be either colonized or to colonize. The structure of either the slave or the master seems to be the simplest and the most relaxing one to slip into. Either you are a slave, and you don't have to think for yourself, or you're a master, and you don't have to work for yourself.
9
Lorraine Toussaint
I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COLONIZED»

Discover the use of colonized in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to colonized and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Colonizer and the Colonized
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Albert Memmi, 2013
2
Being Colonized: The Kuba Experience in Rural Congo, 1880–1960
What was it like to be colonized by foreigners? Highlighting a region in central Congo, in the center of sub-Saharan Africa, Being Colonized places Africans at the heart of the story.
Jan Vansina, 2010
3
The Archaeology of the Colonized
"This is the first book to integrate fully the archaeological study of the landscape with the concerns of colonial and postcolonial history, theory and scholarship.
Michael Given, 2004
4
Colonizer Or Colonized: The Hidden Stories of Early Modern ...
This book weaves these two different stories together in a triangulated dynamic.
Sara E. Melzer, 2011
5
Races on Display: French Representations of Colonized ...
Looking at official propaganda and commercial representations in France during the Third Republic, this book explores the way the French increased the value of their racial identity at home at the expense of their colonized brothers and ...
Dana S. Hale, 2008
6
Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and ...
Discusses the intricate relationship between race and baseball, from the integration of the Major Leagues to the resulting decline of the Negro League and contemporary prominence of baseball players from the Caribbean.
Rob Ruck, 2011
7
Distant Relations: How My Ancestors Colonized North America
Freeman neither demonizes nor whitewashes her ancestors, but instead attempts to understand their actions and choices both in the context of their time and with the benefit of hindsight. From the Hardcover edition.
Victoria Freeman, 2002
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The Sacrificed Generation: Youth, History, and the Colonized ...
Sharp asserts that autobiography and national history are inextricably linked and therefore must be read in tandem, a process that exposes how political consciousness is forged in the classroom, within the home, and on the street in ...
Lesley Alexandra Sharp, 2002
9
On Representation: Deleuze and Coetzee on the Colonized Subject
In this important new study, Hamilton establishes and develops innovative links between the sites of postcolonial literary theory, the fiction of the South African/Australian academic and Nobel Prize-winning writer J.M. Coetzee, and the ...
Grant Hamilton, 2011
10
Still the Big News: Racial Oppression in America
4. Colonized. and. Immigrant. Minorities. In the early years of the Cold War the whole world seemed divided between the Western capitalist countries led by the United States and the Communist societies of Eastern Europe and Asia who ...
Bob Blauner, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COLONIZED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term colonized is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Can philanthropy ever reduce inequality?
... and political oppression in a 'colonized ghetto' under global capitalism. By contrast, American philanthropists from Andrew Carnegie to Paul ... «Open Democracy, Jul 15»
2
Invasive snails that threaten waterfowl found in new waters
Elton Creek is the first small, cold water stream in Wisconsin known to have been colonized by this species. Wakeman suspects that fishing ... «Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Jul 15»
3
Blackface Is Cool And Good Because Nick Cannon
Brownface is likewise dismissive of races that white empires variously colonized and decimated for several centuries. In contrast, "whiteface" is ... «Complex, Jul 15»
4
Warren Roberts
EVT: In the years before Europeans colonized the Americas, did the Indian tribes war on each other, slaughtering the... When Patton slapped ... «Albany Times Union, Jul 15»
5
Conor McGregor: Irish pride
There are those outside who do not understand us and those inside that are still colonized in the mind, scared of being Irish. We were told we ... «The Speaker, Jul 15»
6
Scott Timberg on leaving Los Angeles*
Los Angeles has colonized our imaginations. Visit many other cities, Rodriguez points out—Houston, Atlanta, Vegas, Austin, Seattle—and ... «LA Observed, Jul 15»
7
The Limits of Humanitarianism
It is in this manner that the World Bank follows colonial orders, accepting only “legitimate” or legitimized interlocutors from the colonized society. «Jadaliyya, Jul 15»
8
From Imperial Hegemony to Cultural Autonomy: A Way Forward
Aboriginal peoples all over the globe, in Australia the Americas and elsewhere, were not only imposed upon, they were colonized wholesale. «MWC News, Jul 15»
9
The Media vs. Trump's Patriotic Appeal
In a piece entitled, “Is the U.S. Being Colonized By Red China?,” Tom Deweese, president of the American Policy Center, wrote that “The ... «Accuracy In Media, Jul 15»
10
VIZ MEDIA ANNOUNCES EXCITING NEW MANGA AND NOVEL …
In the 36th Century humanity has conquered the galaxy and colonized countless star systems. The Galactic Empire, modeled along Prussian ... «Active Anime, Jul 15»

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