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The act of colonizing
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colonization
Word definitions for colonization in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1766, noun of action from colonize .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Colonization (or colonisation ) is an ongoing process of by which a central system of power dominates the surrounding land and its components (people). The term is derived from the Latin word colere , which means "to inhabit". Also, colonization refers ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. The process of establishing a colony. n. The process of establishing a colony.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies; "the British colonization of America" [syn: colonisation , settlement ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Colonization \Col`o*ni*za"tion\, n. [Cf. F. colonisation.] The act of colonizing, or the state of being colonized; the formation of a colony or colonies. The wide continent of America invited colonization. --Bancroft.
Usage examples of colonization.
Colony 6 was a possible long-range problem, some day, because, despite its nearness to Flat territory, we were the ones to discover that nearby cluster of breakpoints into subspace, opening up promising routes for future colonization.
But it had complicated the lives of both males and females from the colonization fleet, especially those of the females.
The Olympus eden is a showcase microecology, a sample of what all Mars will be like eventually, and is not yet available for colonization.
It involved data from deep-space sky surveys, and modeling of certain colonization and trade routes, primarily into the Sagittarian arm in the direction of the galactic center.
Miranda is a Class-M world, without any indigenous sentients or hostile life-forms, which made it seem ideal for colonization.
After that, they would be placed on the tables and the viewscreen overhead would permit the Colonization Board on Slistia, as well as the Extermination Force Board, to learn the physical structure of the natives as Sesnar methodically vivisected them.
Phoenicians and directed by the wise men of Solomon, they head for the mouth of the Zambesi river looking for valuable metals, and proceed on their colonization of these regions.
Council had accepted a plan to allow colonization first for farmers, because our crying need is food.
They gave Gorlot the support he needed in Council when he needed it, in return for his extravagant promises of large grants when his colonization reforms went through.
All the solid bodies in a nation's territory, whether useful for colonization or not, can be exploited for mineral wealth and are thus guarded carefully.
They were using their surviving forces and the bridgeheads to begin colonization, continuing to create monsters that were a tough battle to destroy.
Only fringe outfits like Amspace, and a few visionaries who were prepared to back them, had continued pushing for a general commitment to broadening what the Kronians had pioneered, and were calling for the enterprise that advanced, long-range, spacegoing capability would open up: colonization.
It would appear probable that, while other races represent the conquests or colonizations of Atlantis, the Phœnicians succeeded to their arts, sciences, and especially their commercial supremacy.
And how could the Sanscrit writings have preserved maps of Ireland, England, and Spain, giving the shape and outline of their coasts, and their very names, and yet have preserved no memory of the expeditions or colonizations by which they acquired that knowledge?
Neither had he been here for the later colonizations of Aegis system by the Orions, or the Hatire's first seizure of Grith, or the settlements of Algemron system by the Thuldans and the Austrins.