colonizer

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noun person who finds a new place, founds something

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pioneer

noun. person who finds a new place, founds something

pioneers

noun. person who finds a new place, founds something

Word Origin & History

1620s, "to settle with colonists," from stem of Latin colonus "tiller of the soil, farmer" (see colony); in sense "to make another place into a national dependency" without regard for settlement there by 1790s (e.g. in reference to French activity in Egypt or British work in India), and probably directly from colony.

Related: Colonized; colonizing.

Example Sentences for colonizer

We have not spoken of the Chancellor as an argonaut, of the Chancellor as a colonizer.

He was a young man of energy and had great ideas as a colonizer.

He may be no sort of a colonizer himself, but he knows how to sell goods.

As an explorer he stands unequalled, but as a colonizer he utterly failed.

Charnisay possessed the instincts of a colonizer and had already brought a number of settlers to Acadia.

Pierre Terriot was a colonizer, and an interesting figure in the early days of Minas.

As a colonizer and builder, from the pioneer days to the completion of his work, he was equal to the foremost of his associates.

Captain John Smith, soldier, colonizer and Virginian planter, writing in 1606 describes two sorts of wild grapes.

The notion, so widely current in this country, that Spain "failed" as a colonizer, arises from a faulty method.

Roberval, French colonizer, 82;commissioned viceroy and lieutenant-general of Canada, 82.

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Synonyms for colonizer

pioneer