colonist Definition
☆ colo·nist (käl′ə nist)
noun
- any of the original settlers or founders of a colony
- an inhabitant of a colony
colonist Synonyms
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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