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colonist

[ kol-uh-nist ]

noun

  1. an inhabitant of a colony.
  2. a member of a colonizing expedition.
  3. (often initial capital letter) an inhabitant of the 13 British colonies that became the United States of America.


colonist

/ 藞办蓲濒蓹苍瑟蝉迟 /

noun

  1. a person who settles or colonizes an area
  2. an inhabitant or member of a colony
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of colonist1

An Americanism dating back to 1695鈥1705; colon(y) + -ist
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Two years later, they opened fire on a group of colonists who were taunting them by throwing rocks and snowballs.

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Mandatory celibacy does not go over well, a joke that springs from the novel鈥檚 note that the colonists had no intellectually stimulating hobbies.

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Soon after, colonists started taking over Indigenous lands and enslaving people to cultivate their coffee plantations.

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Early written records of Cape Verdean music are scarce - the Portuguese colonists did not document life and society on Cape Verde other than records of taxes and commodities.

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Fruitcakes came to America with the European colonists, and the rising tide of emigration from Britain to New England closely mirrored an influx of cheap sugar from the Caribbean.

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