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colonist

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ In 1638, Swedish colonists settled in present-day Delaware. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And, of course, we harness the cranial material of the descendants of the colonists. ▪ In he north they had merged with the Semitic colonists ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country [syn: settler ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who is a founder of a colony. 2 An original member of a colony.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Colonist \Col"o*nist\, n. A member or inhabitant of a colony. [1913 Webster] ||

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Colonists are an extraterrestrial species in the science fiction television show, The X-Files , as well as the first X-Files feature film . The mystery revolving around their identity and purpose is revealed across the course of the series. In the series' ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1701, "colonizer," from colony + -ist .

Usage examples of colonist.

So what if a bunch of defiant colonists have to put up with a few bruises?

Throughout the end of June and the early part of July much was hoped from the mediation of the heads of the Afrikander Bond, the political union of the Dutch Cape colonists.

Although Alamanni tribes wander about Noricum, too, there are also small settlements of Roman colonists whose ancestors emigrated from Italia, mainly because there is much iron in the ground here, and the Noricans prosper by making the fine Noric steel that Rome buys for making weapons.

Indian terms taken directly into English by the first colonists come from the two eastern families: the Iroquois confederacy, whose members included the Mohawk, Cherokee, Oneida, Seneca, Delaware and Huron tribes, and the even larger Algonquian group, which included Algonquin, Arapaho, Cree, Delaware, Illinois, Kickapoo, Narragansett, Ojibwa, Penobscot, Pequot and Sac and Fox, among many others.

Indeed, the English king, George III, in 1763 forbade colonization--as Louis XIV at one time had wished to prevent it--beyond the Alleghany Mountains without his special permission, and, moreover, it was hardly more than ten years after the titular transfer to England that the colonists declared themselves independent.

William Herschel, a musician whose relatives had come to Britain with the family of another anglified German, the reigning monarch and future oppressor of the American colonists, George III.

She understood that was how long it had taken Arion and his crew to collect the Shielder colonists and transport them, also in sleep stasis, to Shamara, and then return to Saura.

Things flare up in the mouth of the Tigris, not far from where Baghdad used to be: the native Lemurians attack the Atlantian colonists, killing two of their officers, supposedly because of some insult to their nation.

The Saxon colonists in this state welcomed the Reformation, formally recognizing the Augsburg Confession in a synod of 1572.

They can offer to make peace on behalf of the colony by choosing their own broods and working toward building a better understanding between us and the Xtanians, or they can serve time--and we will draw lots for volunteers among the other colonists.

And since seeing that I have imagined Jacques Cartier in 1535 looking off to the southeast, when his disappointed vision of the west had tired his eyes, and catching first sight of these dim indentations of his sky, the White Mountains, which the colonists from England did not see until a century later and then only from their ocean side.

He even crossed to the eastern shore of the Chesapeake to visit a Quaker meeting on the Choptank before winter set in, and he describes the immense migration of wild pigeons at that season, and the ducks which flew so low and were so tame that the colonists knocked them down with sticks.

Once or twice more he spoke to the colonists who stood around him, and smiled on them with that last smile which continues after death.

Given the knowledge, the colonists may he able to restore a machine culture if the knowledge continues to be bolstered by desire.

The exploration ended, the colonists found themselves at the north angle of the cliff, where it terminated in long slopes which died away on the shore.