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单词 colonizer
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colonizern.

Brit. /ˈkɒlənʌɪzə/, U.S. /ˈkɑləˌnaɪzər/
Forms: see colonize v. and -er suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: colonize v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < colonize v. + -er suffix1.
1.
a. A person who moves (typically with others) to settle in a place; one of the first human settlers of a place.In early use probably a contextual development of sense 1b, although it is recorded earlier. Later perhaps influenced by scientific use in sense 3.
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1723 H. Rowlands Mona Antiqua Restaurata i. iv. 20 When these prime Colonizers came into it [sc. Anglesey],..we may well presume that they might then properly call it y Vôn ynys, that is, the hindermost or furthermost Island.
1781 S. Peters Gen. Hist. Connecticut 25 I have given the Reader some idea of the first colonizers of Connecticut.
1865 J. Lubbock Pre-Historic Times iv. 116 The evidence..appears to show that the Celts were not the earliest colonisers of Northern Europe.
1931 Good Housek. (U.S. ed.) Dec. 177/1 East Greenland,..usually called No Man's Land,..until recently has remained open to colonizers of any nation.
2017 New Scientist 8 July 39/1 Fires set by the first human colonisers at least 40,000 years ago may have precipitated the extinction of Australia's megafauna.
b. A person who settles in a place as part of an effort (typically by a foreign state) to appropriate the area settled and to assert political control over any indigenous inhabitants; the founder of a colony.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > colonist or settler > [noun]
peopler1566
planter1587
plantator1632
colonist1658
populator1664
storer1690
settler1696
white settler1754
plantationite1756
colonizer1766
colonizationist1823
colon1860
homesteader1870
plantationer1888
1766 W. Greatrakes Applic. Gen. Polit. Rules 7 The conquests and colonies of nations, who themselves have enjoyed Liberty..have generally felt more oppression, and have been less tenderly cherished by the conquerors or colonizers, than those of absolute monarchies.
1775 Conc. Hist. Acct. Brit. Colonies N. Amer. 73 Conceiving himself and other sachems (perhaps with reason) to be serviley treated by the encroaching colonizers, secretly invited his countrymen to a general insurrection, as the only means of recovering their expiring liberties.
1845 G. S. Faber Eight Diss. I. ii. iii. 149 Certain other warlike colonisers.
1920 Jrnl. Royal Afr. Soc. 20 59 Modern civilisation can only have honourable and lasting results if the colonised gets from colonisation as much advantage as the coloniser.
1988 Irish Rev. Autumn 17 Early seventeenth century colonisers came from Britain the mother country.
2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 3 June iv. 14/4 When Europeans fanned out across the globe in the 18th and 19th centuries, the colonizers made it a priority to crush the danced rituals of indigenous people.
c. A country, state, or ruler that sends settlers to an area as part of an effort to establish political and economic control over it; the colonial ruler of a place.
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1824 Monthly Crit. Gaz. June 24 The great stream of civilization derived its source from Ethiopia and Western Africa. As far as Egypt, the mother colonizer of Athens, is concerned, this is obvious.
1875 E. R. Billings Tobacco Pref. p. viii Ushered into the Old World from the New by the great colonizers—Spain, England, and France—it attracted at once the attention of the authors of the period.
1915 Hopkinsville Kentuckian 25 Feb. 3/1 That..class of Englishmen who unite the virtues of careful training with an adaptability to circumstance which has made Great Britain the colonizer of the world.
1992 N.Y. Times Mag. 5 Jan. 30/4 The air is scented..by the yeasty smell of freshly baked baguettes, the great contribution of France, Vietnam's former colonizer.
2011 K. M. Morin Civic Discipline Introd. 21 King Leopold II of Belgium, ruthless colonizer of the African Congo in the later nineteenth century.
2.
a. U.S. Politics. A person who moves or is moved into a district temporarily in order to vote (typically illegally or irregularly) or campaign for one side in an election; (also) a person who introduces voters or political supporters into a district in this way. Now chiefly historical. Cf. colonize v. 3b, colonization n. 3a, colonist n. 4.
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1838 Evening Post (N.Y.) 22 Oct. Look out for the Colonizers.—Those who voted in New Haven last spring, had better take heed how they attempt to vote in New York this fall.
1857 N.-Y. Daily Times 8 Jan. 3/5 The ignorant are always and exclusively the instruments of mob-contrivers and election-day ‘colonizers’.
1864 Press (Philadelphia) 8 Nov. Union men of the Second ward, take care of the colonizers who intend to vote the guerilla ticket to-day.
1892 Nation 55 274/3 The New York cheats, bullies, receivers, colonizers.
1904 N.Y. Evening Post 7 Nov. 1 The superintendent of elections is authority for the statement that there are gangs of colonizers and repeaters in the city.
1949 Birmingham (Alabama) News 8 Apr. 22/2 The witness quoted Blum as saying ‘the status of a colonizer’ is ‘a high honor in the party’.
2011 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 31 Dec. 15 aColonizers’ were groups of bought voters who moved en masse to turn the voting tide in doubtful wards.
b. Chiefly U.S. Politics. A person who infiltrates a group, organization, etc., typically for the purpose of political subversion. Now chiefly historical.Chiefly with reference to the activities of communist parties in the United States.
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1929 Daily Worker (N.Y.) 17 Oct. 3/4 Special attention must be paid to colonizing of factories especially in key and war industries. Colonizers must be regarded..as..comrades who are sent into a factory..to win the confidence of the workers through their activity and leadership in the struggles of the workers.
1958 Charlotte (N. Carolina) Observer 30 July 1/5 The strategy was to send ‘colonizers’ into strategic points in the south.., place them in jobs at textile mills where they were ‘to spread propaganda..and undertake concealed activities of the party’.
1962 Amer. Legion Mag. Aug. 10/3 When he was called before the Committee on Un-American Activities.., he defied the committee and refused to answer questions about his activities as a communist colonizer in the Chicago area.
2000 L. D. Benin New Labor Radicalism & N.Y.C.'s Garment Industry (2018) v. 99 What experiences prepared these young PLers [sc. members of Progressive Labor] to become communist colonizers in New York City's garment Industry?
3. Biology. A (species of) plant, animal, or other organism that spreads into a new area, esp. one which is among the first to become established in a newly available habitat. Cf. colonist n. 2a.
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the world > plants > by habitat or distribution > [noun] > non-native or migrant
stranger1578
exotic1682
alien1847
colonizer1856
migrant1874
immigrant1880
adventive1883
pioneer1911
neophyte1916
wool alien1919
casual1926
1856 New Monthly Mag. June 237 These plants [sc. quillworts] are real colonisers, preparing the bottom of shallow waters and moist lands for more perfect forms of vegetation.
1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man xxi. 423 When animals or plants migrate into new countries, whether assisted by man, or without his aid, the most successful colonisers appertain by no means to those types which are most allied to the old indigenous species.
1920 Ann. Bot. 34 290 Ruderal species are all good colonizers, and are spread rapidly either by the abundance of their seed production or by efficient vegetative reproduction.
1984 Sci. Aner. Mar. 121/2 Underlying all the animal's success as a colonizer is its naturally high fecundity.
2010 Vegetation Hist & Archaeobot. 19 88/1 Wood anemone is a slow coloniser of secondary woodland but responds rapidly to regular coppicing.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).
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