colonial

CEFRB2

/kəˈləʊ.ni.əl/

adjective

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adjective
Related to a country ruling another land as a colony.
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adjective
Extra detail
Of or pertaining to a colony.

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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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5

Also pronounced

/kəˈloʊ.ni.əl/
/kəˈloʊ.njəl/

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adjective

Extra meanings

Of or pertaining to a period when a country or territory was a colony.
Of or pertaining to the ideals of colonialism.
Of or relating to the original Thirteen Colonies of the USA.

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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.
None of them are, so to speak, idle men. Many of them are emigrants, not of the soil born and bred colonials.
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.

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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
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
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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Origin

adjective

From colony + -al.

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adjective

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The museum displayed furniture from the blank— period in American history.

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adjective

The museum displayed furniture from the blank period in American history.