[ UK /kəlˈə‍ʊnɪəl/ ]
[ US /kəˈɫoʊniəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony
    coral is a colonial organism
  2. of animals who live in colonies, such as ants
  3. of or relating to or characteristic of or inhabiting a colony
NOUN
  1. a resident of a colony
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How To Use colonial In A Sentence

  • The Colonial Office was absorbed into the Foreign Office.
  • This species is also closely associated with colonies of various seabirds and marine mammals; it feeds among birds and seals and has been considered a commensal of those colonial animals.
  • It was not just established states that were eager narrowly to define the right of self-determination as a right end colonial status.
  • Nilufer Bharucha, faculty in the department of English and project coordinator, explained that the term diaspora means to be scattered or dispersed across national boundaries, and has been self-consciously used today by postcolonial theorists to describe those who got displaced from their home owing to colonial politics and post-colonial economic realities. Analysis
  • Tessa Morris-Suzuku of Australian National University perhaps the most widely known Australian historian of Japan presented a paper on colonial Karafuto, one of many topics she is currently researching. 2007: Japan Top Ten Year in Review
  • Both neo-colonial and advanced capitalist/colonial states organize and reinforce a cathectic structure based in sexual difference, which they enforce through a variety of means, including legislation.
  • Until the advent of synthetic dyes, woad was cultivated in great plantations that were for a time a mainstay in some colonial economies. SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
  • Imperialism was not just about colonialism, but the shape of capitalist competition.
  • He was joined by a group of fishermen from Asere, the core Ga settlement in pre-colonial Accra.
  • The fugitive slave problem on the southeastern frontier dated back to the colonial period.
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