as in social
tending to group with others of the same kind
colonial organisms
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as in settler
a person who settles in a new region
European colonials who built coffee plantations in East Africa
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Literary Hub, 17 July 2025
The idea was to correct the tendency, common in luxury hospitality, to see colonial opulence only through British eyes.
—Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 16 July 2025
Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 May 2025
The Roman Catholic Church has had an outsize impact on this archipelago nation: 80% of the country identifies as such, a vestige of the Spanish colonial rule that lasted for nearly three centuries.
—Juliet Izon, Vogue, 7 May 2025
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Adjective
With the encouragement of his colonial enslavers, merchant Henry Barnes and his wife, Christian, a would-be art patron, Prince Demah traveled to London in 1771 to hone his painterly craft.
—Literary Hub, 17 July 2025
The idea was to correct the tendency, common in luxury hospitality, to see colonial opulence only through British eyes.
—Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 16 July 2025
Noun
The Kashmir dispute dates back to the late 1940s and the chaotic partition that ended British colonial rule.
—Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 May 2025
The Roman Catholic Church has had an outsize impact on this archipelago nation: 80% of the country identifies as such, a vestige of the Spanish colonial rule that lasted for nearly three centuries.
—Juliet Izon, Vogue, 7 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for colonial
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The husband of social media influencer Emilie Kiser will not face a criminal charge in the drowning death of their 3-year-old son, Trigg.—
AZCentral.com,
AZCentral.com,
27 July 2025
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The migration reaches its peak in August, when larger pods appear and there is a surge in social behavior: tail slapping, pectoral waving, and the unmistakable breach.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
26 July 2025
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But its history can be traced back to the early settlers of the Steele Creek neighborhood.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
14 July 2025
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It’s alleged that an 18th-century settler named David Askins was considering moving to Kentucky from Pennsylvania, but decided instead to settle in the Quaker State’s southwestern corner and dubbed it Little Kentuck.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
14 July 2025
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Dora Maar, Sabine Weiss and Lee Miller were early pioneers of photography affording these exceptional women independent careers.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
15 July 2025
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Big Beat electronica pioneer The Crystal Method, now a solo project for co-founder Scott Kirkland, began in 1993, has released seven album and has influenced a generation of film and TV scores.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
12 July 2025
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The colonists settled mainly in the Colorado and Brazos river basins.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
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For millennia, Indigenous peoples in North America, and later European colonists, derived part of their year-round sustenance from juneberry.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
27 June 2025
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“Colonial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colonial. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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