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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : kol-uh-nahyz |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkɒl əˌnaɪz |
Definition of colonize
Origin :- 1620s, "to settle with colonists," from stem of Latin colonus "tiller of the soil, farmer" (see colony); in sense "to make another place into a national dependency" without regard for settlement there by 1790s (e.g. in reference to French activity in Egypt or British work in India), and probably directly from colony.
- No principle ought ever to be tolerated or acted upon, that does not proceed on the basis of India being considered as the temporary residence of a great British Establishment, for the good government of the country, upon steady and uniform principles, and of a large British factory, for the beneficial management of its trade, upon rules applicable to the state and manners of the country. [Henry Dundas, Chairman of the East-India Company, letter, April 2, 1800]
- Related: Colonized; colonizing.
- verb settle
- For fifty years he had tried to colonize Mars and all his efforts had failed.
- Extract from : « Keep Out » by Fredric Brown
- The Ohio Company hastened to colonize its broad acres on the Muskingum.
- Extract from : « Union and Democracy » by Allen Johnson
- All their own to colonize and govern, and separated from home by just a breadth of danger.
- Extract from : « Pirate Gold » by Frederic Jesup Stimson
- So falls the curtain on the first attempt to colonize Canada.
- Extract from : « Canada: the Empire of the North » by Agnes C. Laut
- Thus some of the worst vagabonds of earth were gathered from the seaports of France to colonize the New World.
- Extract from : « The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago » by John S. C. Abbott
- This failure to colonize is indeed curious and needs explanation.
- Extract from : « Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition » by H. L. Russell
- To Perestrelo he gave the island of Porto Santo to colonize it.
- Extract from : « The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 » by Various
- It is said we cannot colonize the tropics, because our people cannot labor there.
- Extract from : « Problems of Expansion » by Whitelaw Reid
- This was the first two-stage planet man had ever attempted to colonize.
- Extract from : « General Max Shorter » by Kris Ottman Neville
- Therefore no organized attempt had ever been made to colonize the planet.
- Extract from : « Planet of the Damned » by Harry Harrison
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