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UK
/kəlˈəʊnɪəl/
]
[ US /kəˈɫoʊniəɫ/ ]
[ US /kəˈɫoʊniəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony
coral is a colonial organism - of animals who live in colonies, such as ants
- of or relating to or characteristic of or inhabiting a colony
NOUN
- a resident of a colony
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.