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synonyms for colonization

  • clearing
  • establishment
  • expansion
  • founding
  • immigration
  • migration
  • settlement
  • settling
  • squatting
  • transplanting
  • expanding
  • opening up
  • peopling
  • pioneering
  • populating
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On this page you'll find 19 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to colonization, such as: clearing, establishment, expansion, founding, immigration, and migration.

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How to use colonization in a sentence

But why deem any argument necessary to show the unrighteousness of colonization?
THE CONDITION, ELEVATION, EMIGRATION, AND DESTINY OF THE COLORED PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATESMARTIN R. DELANY
Bushrod Washington, a nephew of George Washington, served as one of the presidents of this national colonization society.
HALLOWED HERITAGE: THE LIFE OF VIRGINIADOROTHY M. TORPEY
One thing we do know, that he left the Colonization Society, because he could not conscientiously subscribe to its measures.
THE CONDITION, ELEVATION, EMIGRATION, AND DESTINY OF THE COLORED PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATESMARTIN R. DELANY
We dismiss it without further comment—and with it Colonization in toto—and Mr. Birney de facto.
THE CONDITION, ELEVATION, EMIGRATION, AND DESTINY OF THE COLORED PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATESMARTIN R. DELANY
Roman colonization resembled, far less than that of the Greeks, the original settlements of this country.
SELECT SPEECHES OF DANIEL WEBSTERDANIEL WEBSTER
She grasped at dominion, from India to Britain, and her measures of colonization partook of the character of her general system.
SELECT SPEECHES OF DANIEL WEBSTERDANIEL WEBSTER
I was once interested in colonization, and talked of going to Africa,—of buying myself, and go there and be free.
THE BOYS OF '61CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN.
Then comes the period of colonization and increasing knowledge.
AVIATION IN PEACE AND WARSIR FREDERICK HUGH SYKES
The meeting following this will then begin the next period, when under King James colonization was again taken up.
THE COMPLETE CLUB BOOK FOR WOMENCAROLINE FRENCH BENTON
But a handful held on, and for fifty years their little settlement on the Red River remained a solitary outpost of colonization.
THE CANADIAN DOMINIONOSCAR D. SKELTON
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WORDS RELATED TO COLONIZATION

  • colonization
  • crossing
  • defection
  • departure
  • displacement
  • exile
  • exodus
  • expatriation
  • homesteading
  • journey
  • leaving
  • march
  • movement
  • moving
  • peregrination
  • reestablishment
  • relocation
  • removal
  • resettlement
  • settling
  • shift
  • transplanting
  • travel
  • trek
  • uprooting
  • voyage
  • wandering
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.