colonial

[co·lo·ni·al]

The colonial period of United States history occurred before 1776, when America was still 13 colonies under British rule.

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Of or pertaining to a colony; as, colonial rights, traffic, wars.

Noun
a resident of a colony

Adjective S.
composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony; "coral is a colonial organism"

Adjective
of or relating to or characteristic of or inhabiting a colony

Adjective
of animals who live in colonies, such as ants


a.
Of or pertaining to a colony; as, colonial rights, traffic, wars.


Colonial

Co*lo"ni*al , a. [Cf. F. colonial.] Of or pertaining to a colony; as, colonial rights, traffic, wars.

Of or pertaining to a colony; as, colonial rights, traffic, wars.

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Usage Examples

I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states.

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos.

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.

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Other Usage Examples

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere.

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa.

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