Colonist Definition

kŏlə-nĭst
colonists
noun
colonists
Any of the original settlers or founders of a colony.
Webster's New World
An inhabitant of a colony.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Colonist

Noun

Singular:
colonist
Plural:
colonists

Origin of Colonist

  • colon(y) +‎ -ist

    From Wiktionary

Colonist Sentence Examples

  • His first ancestor in America may possibly have been Captain Isaac Maddyson, a colonist of 1623 mentioned by John Smith as an excellent Indian fighter.

  • Every colonist was enrolled either in the Milicias or Ordenanzas.

  • An industrious colonist could purchase a small farm on the estate and make himself independent in two years.

  • Each colonist not only paid him a fixed rent, usually in kind, but had to share with him the increase of the stock and to have the grain ground at his mill.

  • Watermeyer, a Cape colonist of Dutch descent residing in Cape Town.

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Words Starting With

CCOCOL

Words Ending With

TSTIST

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Words Starting With C and Ending With T

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