English Explanatory Dictionary

colonial

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

Of or pertaining to a colony.
Of or pertaining to a period when a country or territory was a colony.
Of or pertaining to the ideals of colonialism.
Of or relating to the original Thirteen Colonies of the USA.
Of or relating to the style of architecture prevalent at about the time of the Revolution.
Tending to form colonies (especially of cells).

noun

A person from a country that is or was controlled by another.
A house that is built in a style reminiscent of the period of the colonization of New England.
A coin or postage stamp issued by a colony.

Pronunciation

/kəˈləʊ.ni.əl/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-colonial.wav /kəˈloʊ.njəl/ /kəˈloʊ.ni.əl/

Word forms

colonial more colonial most colonial colonials

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁-e-ti Proto-Italic *kʷelō Latin colō Latin colōnus Latin colōniader. Middle English colane English colony Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English colonial From colony + -al.

Related words

colonization

Derived words

allocolonial anticolonial autocolonial biocolonial colonial bent colonial blue colonial empire colonial goose colonialise colonialism colonialist colonialistic colonialistically coloniality colonialization colonialize colonial lag colonially colonialness colonial salmon concolonial countercolonial cybercolonial decolonial Eurocolonial French colonial empire heterocolonial homocolonial intercolonial intracolonial microcolonial multicolonial neocolonial noncolonial paracolonial postcolonial precolonial pseudocolonial retro-colonial semicolonial subcolonial supercolonial transcolonial uncolonial unicolonial

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