Colonial Meaning
/kəˈləʊ.ni.əl/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjOf or pertaining to a colony.
adjOf or pertaining to a period when a country or territory was a colony.
Sentence Examples
He dates the custom from the colonial days.
He wrote the article "Artificial Intelligence in Martian Colonial Life Support Systems."
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The museum displayed furniture from the ____ period in American history.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Many old city buildings still feature classic ____ style architecture.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁-e-ti Proto-Italic *kʷelō Latin colō Latin colōnus Latin colōniader. Middle English colane English colony Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English colonial From colony + -al.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, archived from the original on 25 Nov 2020, page 52:
"India’s half-hour zone dates back to colonial rule of India and the era when ever-faster steamships and trains were shrinking the world."
— 2024 May 8, Dhruv Tikekar, “How India got stuck in its own unusual time zone”, in CNN:
"None of them are, so to speak, idle men. Many of them are emigrants, not of the soil born and bred colonials."
— 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 192:
"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."
— 2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 150:
"This simple soul, who possesses a talent not inferior to that of Cavino at his best, has for many years turned his hand to the not unprofitable occupation of forging rare Greek and Roman coins. As a collector and student of certain Greek colonials and a specialist in forgeries I have been familiar with Stelli's workmanship for years."
— 1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The museum displayed furniture from the ____ period in American history.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Many old city buildings still feature classic ____ style architecture.