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单词 colonist
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colonistnoun [ C ]

uk/ˈkɒl.ə.nist/us/ˈkɑː.lə.nist/

someone who lives in or goes to live in a country or area that is a colony

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Colonisation & self-government

  • annex
  • autonomous
  • autonomy
  • client state
  • colonial
  • decolonization
  • dependency
  • devolution
  • devolve
  • devolve sth to sb
  • Independence Day
  • nationalism
  • nationalist
  • neocolonialism
  • non-aligned
  • self-rule
  • separatism
  • separatist
  • the British Empire
  • the free world

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Examples from literature

  • Mars One, a private Dutch company, proposes to set up a colony on Mars by 2023, sending in new ships of four colonists every two years. 
  • Most of the colonists had to leave the island. 
  • The colonists did not want to pay the tax, so they decided to become free from Britain. 
  • Although it had now become evident that a rupture was inevitable, the colonists viewed the snapping of the ties which bound them to Spain with reluctance and unease. 
  • He saw walls covered with carvings, depicting old legends about the first colonists. 
  • Some of the colonists refused to leave, remained, and thus became British subjects. 
  • The white colonists take it for granted that industry is to thrive. 
  • They were both young men—colonists by birth. 

colonistnoun [ C ]

us/ˈkɑl·ə·nɪst/

politics & government a person living in a country or area controlled politically by a more powerful country:

He arrived in Maryland with the first American colonists in 1634.
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