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colonized

colonized \colonized\ adj.

  1. inhabited by people who were born in or retain strong ties to another country.

    Syn: settled.

  2. politically ruled by citizens of another country.

  3. having a population (of animals or plants) which moved in from another territory.

    Syn: colonized.

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colonized

alt. (en-past of: colonize) vb. (en-past of: colonize)

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colonized

adj. inhabited by colonists [syn: colonised, settled]

Usage examples of "colonized".

Chapter 3 — WOMAN Saturn, as the local saying went, was not colonized in a day, and my farm reform program was not instituted any faster.

Titan was colonized by the Japanese of Earth, and they maintained their rivalry and often enmity with huge Saturn.

Spirit and I accepted this with equanimity, because Helvetia, colonized by the historic Switzerland, was to be our host country during our stay at Uranus.

It was a pleasure for me to visit Castile personally, because that was of course colonized by the source of the Hispanics, the peninsula of Spain on Earth.

Mars had been colonized by what was, loosely, the Moslem community of Old Earth, which had occupied parts of Asia, Africa, and Europe.

It was colonized by the Moslem community of Earth, and the terrain demarked as seemed appropriate to those several nations.

We docked at Luna, which had been colonized by the Ceylonese and was now known politically as Serendib.

Mercury had been colonized by the nations of the southern part of Africa, and the one we would be primarily dealing with regarded her as a mixed-breed creature of inferior status.

It (singular) would contact the Belt instead of Earth, not only because the Belt held title to most of the solar system but because those humans who had colonized space were clearly more intelligent.

They had colonized Barevi, us ing it as a clearinghouse for spoils acquired looting unsuspecting non-federation planets, and as a rest and-relaxation center for their great ships' crews.

And when Varian reassured her, she continued, "My friends, too many attempts at planetary piracy have been successful, too many well-organized expeditions have appeared on planets which were not scheduled to be colonized for a half century.

Fiona, fourteen, lovely and precocious in Lunzie's unbiased opinion, had been left behind in the care of a friend who was the chief medical officer on the newly colonized planet of Tau Ceti.

They'll do community service on a newly colonized planet—under strict guard.

Thereafter 'Dini had kept ships in constant patrol about their colonized worlds and sent out squadrons to patrol nearby space to make sure no 'Dini ship ever got so close to a 'Dini world again.

Of the four planets investigated, two had obviously been colonized by Hivers because there were the ruins of the sort of installations the Xh-33 has.