Meaning

5 senses
  1. One who colonizes:

    One who makes a group or place into a colony; one who establishes a colonial relationship.

    someone who helps to found a colony

  2. One who establishes a colony; one who joins a colony or is born and raised there.

  3. One who intrudes and takes over.

  4. A species that establishes itself in a new area.

  5. (derogatory, neologism)A white person.

Examples

8 sentences
  1. Maskwa managed to coax the little girl out of the colonizer's hands.

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  2. Colonizers aren't immigrants.

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  3. "Modern Hebrew is a colonizer language," they said in English.

    de„Neuhebräisch ist eine Kolonisatorensprache“, sagten sie auf Englisch.

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  4. There were moneychangers in the Temple because Roman colonizer money wasn't accepted there.

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  5. The first colonizers of the United States of America were the English and French.

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Origin

From colonize + -er.

From colonize + -er.

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