colonial
English
Etymology
From colony + -al.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /kəˈləʊ.ni.əl/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Adjective
colonial (comparative more colonial, superlative most colonial)
- Of or pertaining to a colony.
- Of or pertaining to a period when a country or territory was a colony.
- 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:
- From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
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- (US) Of or relating to the original Thirteen Colonies of the USA.
- (US) Of or relating to the style of architecture prevalent at about the time of the Revolution.
- Tending to form colonies (especially of cells). Synonym for colony-forming.
Derived terms
- anticolonial
- colonial blue
- colonial goose
- colonialise
- colonialism
- colonialist
- colonialistic
- colonialistically
- coloniality
- colonialize
- colonial lag
- colonially
- colonialness
- colonial power
- colonial salmon
- decolonial
- French colonial empire
- intercolonial
- intracolonial
- neocolonial
- noncolonial
- postcolonial
- precolonial
- retro-colonial
- semicolonial
- supercolonial
- unicolonial
Translations
of or pertaining to a colony
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of or pertaining to a period when a country or territory was a colony
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US: of or relating to the original thirteen colonies of the USA
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US: of or relating to the style of architecture
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Noun
colonial (plural colonials)
- A person from a country that is or was controlled by another.
- 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 192:
- None of them are, so to speak, idle men. Many of them are emigrants, not of the soil born and bred colonials.
- 2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 150:
- The rest of us had tea and finger sandwiches with members of the royal household, which was very elegant but hard on some of us ill-schooled colonials.
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- (US) A house that is built in a style reminiscent of the period of the colonization of New England.
Translations
person from a country that is or was controlled by another
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US: house built in a style reminiscent of the colonial period
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Related terms
- colonization
Catalan
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -al
Adjective
colonial (masculine and feminine plural colonials)
- colonial
Derived terms
- colonialisme
- colonialista
Related terms
- colònia
Further reading
- “colonial” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “colonial”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “colonial” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “colonial” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ.lɔ.njal/
audio (file)
Adjective
colonial (feminine coloniale, masculine plural coloniaux, feminine plural coloniales)
- colonial
Derived terms
- puissance coloniale
Descendants
- → German: kolonial
- → Romanian: colonial
- → Turkish: kolonial, kolonyal
Noun
colonial m (plural coloniaux, feminine coloniale)
- a colonial, a resident of a colony
- a soldier dispatched to a colony
Further reading
- “colonial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese
Etymology
From colónia, colônia (“colony”) + -al (“of or relating to”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ko.lo.niˈaw/ [ko.lo.nɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /ko.loˈnjaw/ [ko.loˈnjaʊ̯]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ku.luˈnjal/ [ku.luˈnjaɫ]
- Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
- Hyphenation: co‧lo‧ni‧al
Adjective
colonial m or f (plural coloniais)
- (geopolitics) colonial (relating to colonies: regions ruled by another country)
- Governo colonial.
- Colonial government.
- (geopolitics) colonial; colonialistic (relating to colonialism)
- Expansão colonial.
- Colonial expansion.
- Synonym: colonialista
- (chiefly art) colonial (relating to the period when a country was a colony)
- Arquitetura colonial.
- Colonial architecture.
- (Brazil) relating to the culture of rural immigrant settlements
- Queijo colonial.
- [Type of cheese made by German immigrants].
Derived terms
- colonialismo
- colonialista
Related terms
- coloniano
- colono
Romanian
Etymology
From French colonial. Equivalent to colonie + -al.
Adjective
colonial m or n (feminine singular colonială, masculine plural coloniali, feminine and neuter plural coloniale)
- colonial
Declension
Declension of colonial
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative/ accusative | indefinite | colonial | colonială | coloniali | coloniale | ||
| definite | colonialul | coloniala | colonialii | colonialele | |||
| genitive/ dative | indefinite | colonial | coloniale | coloniali | coloniale | ||
| definite | colonialului | colonialei | colonialilor | colonialelor | |||
Spanish
Etymology
colonia + -al
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /koloˈnjal/ [ko.loˈnjal]
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: co‧lo‧nial
Adjective
colonial (plural coloniales)
- colonial
Derived terms
- anticolonial
- colonialismo
- colonialista
- colonialmente
Further reading
- “colonial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014