Definition

1. 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

1. inhabited by colonists