Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Definitions

colonizer

[kol-uh-nahy-zer] / ˈkɒl əˌnaɪ zər /
NOUN
imperialist
Synonyms
STRONGEST


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

Powerful new international circuits of credit were built that deepened America’s integration into a British-led global economy and helped pave the way for the young U.S. to leapfrog its former colonizer.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 1, 2025

Rajoelina said he took up dual citizenship to secure his children’s education in former colonizer France.

From Seattle Times Nov. 14, 2023

“They basically just act as the first pioneer or colonizer species that are able to get a hold on a devastated kind of landscape and start to bring some life back to it.”

From Los Angeles Times May 31, 2023

President Idriss Déby, who was fatally wounded on the battlefield in 2021, tamped down multiple rebellions during his 30-year reign, sometimes with the support of Chad’s former colonizer, France.

From Washington Post Apr. 23, 2023

There will always be, in emerging nations, an enduring attraction to the ways of the colonizer — I myself was not immune to it.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Meanwhile the large sugar and tobacco plantations that once belonged to former colonizers were quickly being absorbed by American corporations — not by Cubans.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 21, 2026

Ninety-nine years later, the country expelled the last of its colonizers, but by then the country was thoroughly hooked on cà phê.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 17, 2026

But as human activities damage habitats and reduce biodiversity across regions, the number of possible colonizers falls.

From Science Daily Feb. 18, 2026

The soldiers and colonizers are confined to bland, calorie-specific rations.

From Salon Mar. 25, 2025

Even when they focused on a warmer place like Virginia, they persistently selected as colonists people ignorant of farming; multiplying the difficulties, the would-be colonizers were arriving in the middle of a severe, multiyear drought.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




Vocabulary lists containing colonizer


Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Dictionary.com's Learning Companion

Go beyond just looking up words.
Remember them forever with VocabTrainer.

Start training