Someone who helps to found a colony

Usage examples of colonizer.

French colonizers, who had enslaved his country for decades, and the Japanese warlords, who were attempting to take over much of Asia.

Still, the Quillp were colonizers and settlers, too, and their sphere of influence lay much closer to that of the rapidly expanding humans than did the empire of the AAnn, though not the thranx.

Not only are they not colonizers, they are not big on straightforward exploration.

The classical Old Earth cultures the early interstellar colonizers had sought to preserve had been diluted beyond those colonizers' recognition by centuries of population movements—both the spectacular forced variety and the ongoing process of individuals "voting with their feet"—but they had left a legacy of distinctive planetary and regional styles.

The ancient colonizers must, Corin thought, have hollowed out a significant percentage of the Massif Dornier.

Or else the colonizers, their technological edge sharpened by the world-building frontier, would turn inward on their rich, sedentary cousins.

Either way the cutting-edge colonizers were forced outward, farther and faster.

Moreover, colonizers such as Onate financed operations with their personal funds.

Although the state had become a magnet for new colonizers, the efficiencies of its ultramodern structures allowed plenty of room for public lands.