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colonist Definition

colo·nist (kälə nist)

noun

  1. any of the original settlers or founders of a colony
  2. an inhabitant of a colony

colonist Synonyms

colonist

n.

colonist Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • send: The question now is whether the colonists sent by the Persians pushed out the people who had settled there in the meantime.
  • lead: The ill discipline of these earlier colonists led to the sterner rule imposed by Ezra on a new band of settlers.
  • bring: An alien spacecraft is heading for Earth and will arrive within weeks, bringing colonists who offer partnership and prosperity.
  • leave: There was an outflow of hard currency, leaving the colonists with no medium of exchange.
  • have: We have here colonists of whom they are suspicious.
  • settle: The colonists already settled in the territory of Mutina, suddenly attacked, took refuge in the town.

Converse of subject

  • found: America is a country founded by colonists many of whom came from Britain in the early years.
  • settle: The island was settled by French colonists, who brought with them slaves to work the land, in 1776.
  • write: Third, my evidence was based upon letters written by German colonists in Russia, appealing for help to their compatriots in Germany.
  • build: The date and the ' long house ' style of building led archeologists to believe it was built by Anglo-Scandinavian colonists.

Adjective modifier

  • Persian: The Persian colonists in the fifth century being the obvious contenders.
  • Dutch: A very bitter feeling was thus created among the Dutch colonists.
  • Spanish: In the following centuries the Spanish colonists reduced the vicuna from more than a million to just a few thousand.
  • American: He was a bitter opponent of the American colonists.
  • Greek: Early colonization: how do the Greek colonists react to their new environment?
  • English: He traveled to the Americas to rescue the first English colonists.

Noun used with modifier

  • century: Graffiti on the walls form a link to 19th century Welsh colonists of South America.
  • Viking: Secondly, Viking colonists who settled in north-western France created an independent duchy of the Northmen, or Normandy, as it became known.

Possessives

life: But what counted most in the colonists ' day-to-day lives were the relationships within which they lived with one another.

Preposition: in

century: The Persian colonists in the fifth century being the obvious contenders.

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