colonised
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Inhabited by colonists: Describes a place or territory where people from another country or region have established a permanent settlement and political control, often displacing or subjugating the indigenous population.
- Settled by colonizers: Refers to a land that has been taken over and populated by settlers from a colonizing power.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- The colonised territories often experienced significant cultural changes.
- Historians study the economies of colonised nations.
- The island, once colonised by Europeans, is now an independent state.
Advanced Usage
- "newly colonised": Recently settled or brought under colonial control.
- The newly colonised lands were mapped by explorers.
- "heavily colonised": Intensively settled by a large number of colonists.
- The coastal plains were the most heavily colonised areas.
Variants and Related Words
- Colonise (verb): To establish a colony in or on (a place). (e.g., )
- Coloniser (noun): A person who helps to establish a colony. (e.g., )
- Colonisation (noun): The action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area. (e.g., )
- Colonial (adjective): Relating to or characteristic of a colony or colonisation. (e.g., )
- Colony (noun): A country or area under the full or partial political control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country.
Synonyms
- Settled: Inhabited by people who have moved to live there.
- Occupied: Taken control of, especially by military force.
- Subjugated: Brought under domination or control.
Antonyms
- Decolonised: Having regained independence from colonial rule.
- Uninhabited: Having no inhabitants.
- Indigenous: Originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native.
Adjective
- inhabited by colonists