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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
colonial
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a colonial empire (=a group of countries ruled by another country that is far away)
▪ France had a huge colonial empire.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
administration
▪ With respect to other aspects of colonial administration, his proposals were a little bolder.
▪ The local magnates exercised a limited but real authority entirely independent of the colonial administration.
▪ Nor was Britain the only colonial power to incorporate existing native rulers into a system of colonial administration.
▪ It meant that colonial administrations had an extremely difficult time controlling these peoples.
▪ Furthermore, much of the writing and even foreign staff in conservation institutions are derived directly from colonial administrations.
▪ Decolonisation meant that, by and large, independent states were created out of existing areas of colonial administration, within their colonial frontiers.
administrator
▪ There were twenty-one knights, but these too were more often lawyers, merchants and colonial administrators rather than landed gentry.
▪ I believe I can read the names of a few redundant colonial administrators.
authority
▪ This dash for colonial territories was not always as profitable as the colonial authorities might have wished.
country
▪ It must be consciously incorporated into the strategy of building revolutionary Marxist parties in colonial countries. 14.
▪ The main center of the revolutionary movement thereupon shifted for the time being to the colonial countries.
days
▪ She had an abundance of tales from the old colonial days, when she had been cook for a white family.
▪ In colonial days the Presbyterians had mastered the competitive revivalist styles; now they carried their learned ministry to the West.
▪ No doubt it is difficult for young people now to appreciate the complexities and the rigidities of the social structure in colonial days.
domination
▪ In this way, some of the ideological constructs of colonial domination have become so naturalised that we hardly notice them.
▪ They are expected suddenly to adapt to the modern world after a century of colonial domination and outside interference.
▪ A small, mountainous country with a population of under three million people, it has long been free from colonial domination.
▪ To the victims, the abstract Leftism of some of the Bolsheviks seemed in practice much the same as colonial domination.
empire
▪ War and cold war had some progressive effects with the colonial empires.
▪ But this was even more striking in the colonial empires.
▪ As noted in chapter 1, much of this interest in modernisation was prompted by the decline of the old colonial empires.
era
▪ Largely established during the colonial era, it hardly changed at all after independence.
experience
▪ What these children face is a kind of colonial experience which they are far too young to fight against.
▪ It featured a series of comedy skits and a half-dozen songs, all loosely recounting the colonial experience.
▪ The colonial experience gave him material for his propositions about colonial nationalism, the subject which he quickly made his own.
▪ Third World taxes have grown out of the colonial experience.
government
▪ Above all else, colonial governments were brutal and culturally limited.
▪ A perception of the bureaucrat's power resources is another characteristic feature of some theories of colonial government.
governor
▪ The only real difference would be that the colonial governors sent to deal with the locals back then usually wore pith helmets.
master
▪ But, in time, even the colonial masters were overthrown in their cricketing dominance by mere colonials.
▪ It was a land with no nascent art, save the reflected mirror of its colonial masters.
official
▪ On some occasions lands were taken by colonial officials without the blessing of their authorities.
past
▪ The steamship and the railway, the legacy of the colonial past and the expansive power of commerce make this inevitable.
▪ Children of employees on the large commercial farms - still mainly run by whites - suffer problems left from the colonial past.
▪ The history of cricket in Menorca is closely linked with the island's colonial past.
period
▪ These 4,505 persons are treated as representative of persons considered responsible for crime during the mature colonial period.
▪ The fugitive slave problem on the southeastern frontier dated back to the colonial period.
▪ Education was very limited during the colonial period, and mainly in the hands of missionaries.
▪ During the colonial period, those powers were possessed exclusively by and were entirely under the control of the Crown.
▪ It was only towards the end of the colonial period that the notion of a public corporation was raised.
▪ Both prospered in the colonial period as free ports.
▪ Population anxiety among the ruling classes was crystallized during the colonial periods of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
▪ The importance of graphite mining declined late in the colonial period.
policy
▪ Even the Republic had felt far from confident about forming a long-term colonial policy.
possession
▪ A Zoological Society was founded in London in 1826 to act as a showcase for Britain's colonial possessions.
power
▪ Dulles did more than make the customary recommendations that the policies of the colonial powers keep abreast of local political aspirations.
▪ Nor was Britain the only colonial power to incorporate existing native rulers into a system of colonial administration.
▪ This is especially dangerous in a region where political frontiers, arbitrarily drawn by old colonial powers, divide the tribes.
▪ There was some variation in this regard as different colonial powers pursued different expansionist policies.
regime
▪ They were frequently imposed by colonial regimes using force where necessary.
revolution
▪ Yet the high tide of nationalism was still to come, from two World Wars and the colonial revolution.
▪ The colonial revolution could not by its own forces bring about the downfall of imperialism.
▪ This effectively barred an alliance with the fighting elements of the colonial revolution.
▪ The influence of the colonial revolution on the awakening masses of the workers' states has been complex and many-sided.
▪ In general the colonial revolution has helped to overcome lethargy and the feeling of political impotence.
▪ The evolution of the colonial revolution.
▪ But this does not mean that the colonial revolution has not affected the mechanism of the imperialist economy.
▪ There is recognition of the political resistance at home to waging wars against the colonial revolution in the name of anticommunism.
rule
▪ Their main duty was to arrest wanted persons; they rarely reported or investigated crime during the early years of colonial rule.
▪ Critics say that Cable &038; Wireless never adjusted to the loss of its traditional dominance in Hong Kong under colonial rule.
▪ His Mirror Group papers were non-partisan, but they were, equally, not identified with colonial rule.
▪ During seventy years of colonial rule, no university had been established.
▪ During colonial rule the people and the leaders had struggled together as one.
▪ The stratagem on the whole worked and served to defuse hostility to colonial rule.
▪ Many Malays were descendants of men first brought to Sri Lanka as soldiers in the earlier days of colonial rule.
ruler
▪ There was never much doubt about which language the colonial rulers would use in local administration.
▪ After years of persecution by colonial rulers, Orisha worshipers only recently had their religion officially recognized by the government.
society
▪ Abolitionists thus aspired to make their actual metropolitan and colonial societies conform more closely to these underlying ideas of order.
▪ Both are born into colonial societies ordered by traditional social systems of hierarchy and male domination and by strong, fundamentalist religion.
▪ A third group are the colonialists and the neo-colonialists with experience of colonial societies.
state
▪ The colonial state was not only overdeveloped as a whole.
▪ The colonial state also invested heavily in infrastructure such as railways and ports.
system
▪ It was our colonial system which created export-based farming and the tax systems which continued the depopulation of the villages.
▪ The whole colonial system was set up to exploit and so it continues.
▪ This undermining of the colonial system was accelerated further by the formation in 1919 of the Communist International.
territory
▪ General Booth's Salvationist doctrine was a notable example, recommending mass emigration from the city slums to virgin colonial territories.
▪ This dash for colonial territories was not always as profitable as the colonial authorities might have wished.
▪ In colonial territories, railways were often the largest employers of labour.
times
▪ We are talking now not simply of state societies but of nation states and, especially in colonial times, of empires.
▪ Only the Founding Fathers with their Enlightenment experiments significantly pushed beyond the bounds in colonial times.
▪ Nsefu is Luangwa's oldest camp and was set up by conservationist Norman Carr during colonial times.
▪ Poverty, particularly among poor women and children, has been a fact of life in this society since colonial times.
▪ Indeed, they date way back to colonial times.
▪ In colonial times, Western missionaries would dash off to bastions of other faiths to preach the Gospel.
▪ Just as they were in colonial times.
▪ Aid for the poor, particularly poor women and children, has been problematic since colonial times.
war
▪ Historians have since described and explained how torture was a loathsome, almost automatic feature of colonial wars.
▪ The prospect of colonial war became his new cause.
▪ What is happening now is a continuation of the colonial war that Moscow relaunched in 1999 to get Putin elected.
▪ Certainly the struggle for overseas investment opportunities provoked tensions; and small colonial wars could yield large profits.
world
▪ During the cold war, and to a great extent because of it, the colonial world achieved political independence.
▪ We have always ascribed great importance to the national question in the colonial world.
▪ London: Granta, 1998. 19 Hoogvelt A.. Globalisation and the post-colonial world.
▪ And their assistance to imperialism will not be limited to the colonial world. 3.
▪ The colonial world can be hit by a shortage in chemical fertilizers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a Colonial-style brick house
▪ The goal of the uprising was to overthrow the colonial government.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both are born into colonial societies ordered by traditional social systems of hierarchy and male domination and by strong, fundamentalist religion.
▪ Captain Dean voices the sentiment of centuries of colonial soldiery.
▪ During seventy years of colonial rule, no university had been established.
▪ It is a system that smacks of the company stores of colonial times.
▪ Numerous programs for increasing the white population were debated in the colonial assembly, but no resolution was adopted.
▪ The North receives a kind of colonial tribute in debt service, whilst getting its raw materials at rock-bottom prices.
▪ Their main duty was to arrest wanted persons; they rarely reported or investigated crime during the early years of colonial rule.
▪ They were frequently imposed by colonial regimes using force where necessary.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Although they hail from Quebec, the hurdy-gurdy of this ensemble is sure to pass muster with the average colonial.
▪ But, in time, even the colonial masters were overthrown in their cricketing dominance by mere colonials.
▪ He is perhaps too generous to the colonials.
▪ The colonials of yore had fun, too.
▪ The interest in birds that he shared with them transcended all prejudices and the racism rife among the resident colonials.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Colonial

Colonial \Co*lo"ni*al\, a. [Cf. F. colonial.] Of or pertaining to a colony; as, colonial rights, traffic, wars.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
colonial

1756, from Latin colonia (see colony) + -al (1), or directly from colony on model of baronoinal. Meaning "from or characteristic of America during colonial times" is from 1776. The noun meaning "inhabitant of a colony" is recorded from 1865.

Wiktionary
colonial

a. 1 Of or pertaining to a colony. 2 Of or pertaining to a period when a country or territory was a colony. n. 1 A person from a country that is or was controlled by another. 2 (context US English) A house that is built in a style reminiscent of the period of the colonization of New England.

WordNet
colonial

n. a resident of a colony

colonial

  1. adj. of or relating to or characteristic of or inhabiting a colony

  2. of animals who live in colonies, such as ants

  3. composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony; "coral is a colonial organism" [syn: compound]

Gazetteer
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Wikipedia
Colonial

Colonial or The Colonial may refer to:

  • Colonial, of, relating to, or characteristic of a colony
  • Colonial Australia
  • Colonial history of the United States, the period of American history from the 17th century to 1776, under the rule of Great Britain, France and Spain
  • Colonialism, the extension of political control to new areas
  • Colonial troops, any of various military units recruited from, or used as garrison troops in, colonial territories
  • George Washington Colonials, the nickname for the athletic teams of George Washington University, Washington, DC.
  • Robert Morris Colonials, the nickname for the athletic teams of Robert Morris University, Pittsburgh, PA.
  • Spanish colonization of the Americas, the period of history of Spanish rule over most of the Americas, from the 15th century through the late 19th century
Colonial (PRR train)

The Colonial, also known as the Colonial Express, was a service of the Pennsylvania Railroad and New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad between Union Station in Washington, DC and South Station in Boston, Massachusetts. It was operated until 1973 by Amtrak.

Colonial (1920 automobile)

The Colonial was an American automobile manufactured in 1920 by the Mechanical Development Corporation of San Francisco.

The car came with a straight-eightengine; it also featured disc wheels, with an extra pair mounted at the side as spares. The body was a hardtop, calibrated so that the driver could turn it into either a sedan or a touring car simply by rearranging the windows. Production models were to sell for $1800, but only the prototype was completed.

The Colonial is chiefly remembered today because it was the first American car to feature four-wheel hydraulic brakes. The Mechanical Development Corporation announced in 1924 that the 1921 prototype would be put into production in a new $2.5 million factory which could build 12,000 cars a year, but these plans never eventualized. The prototype Colonial still survives.

Colonial (1921 automobile)

The Colonial was an American automobile manufactured in Boston by the Colonial Motors Corporation from 1921 until 1922.

Although the company pledged to produce "in excess of 100 cars" during its first year in business no more than a dozen are believed to have left the factory. Each car had a 130-inch wheelbase and a six-cylinder Beaver engine. A complete line of open and closed body styles was advertised, but the few completed models all appear to have been open. Disc wheels were a feature of all models, and prices were approximately $5,000 for all body styles.

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Usage examples of "colonial".

Elders, if men had Elders, and if the Colonial Coalition had any sense at all, they would be as wily and problematic as anyone in the New Amazonian Parliament.

The deck crew scurried about, sometimes appearing to be some sort of huge, brightly colored colonial or amebic creature moving with urgent purpose rather than a scattered group of tired, hard-worked men and women.

Besides that, a lot of colonial sorcerers picked up on their lore, so the American version of sorcery has a lot of commonalities with Amerind magic.

The men appear to have been chiefly colonial rebels, and not Boers of the backveld, and to that happy chance it may be that the comparative harmlessness of their fire was due.

The city still had much the colonial look of Gondwanaland when it was known as Bamba del Oro.

I realized that they looked upon me as the Wild Colonial Boy, the bronco buster from the Barcoo, and I determined to act up to it.

Pseudo-Tudor prevailed, with an admixture of Stockbroker Spanish Colonial, distinguished by green glazed tiles, and one British Bauhaus with a flat roof, small square windows and the occasional porthole to add a nautical air.

Colonial vessel, he knew, all landing, launch and repair bays were outfitted with comm systems and computer terminals.

If they sent a hogshead of tobacco or a barrel of salt fish to another country by any but an English or a colonial built bessel, they were legally liable to forfeith their goods.

He owned an old French Colonial in Saigon, but spent the bulk of his time at his house in Binh Khoi, one of the flower townscommunities built at the turn of the century, intended to provide privacy and comfort for well-to-do Vietnamese whose sexual preferences did not conform to communist morality.

When the last of the Warriors had launched from the bay, Starbuck gazed out through the launch aperture at the laser blasts flashing back and forth between Cylon Raiders and Colonial Vipers and felt a terrible hopelessness overcome him.

On reflection I know only two place names in Boca Grande which evoke an idea or an event or a person, which suggest a past either Indian or colonial.

Also, Boolean has been outspoken for years in his contempt for the Akhbreed way and consistently a defender of colonials, as if they were capable of governing themselves.

At Wilmington there has always been a strong manufacturing interest, beginning with the famous colonial flour mills at the falls of the Brandywine, and the breadstuffs industry at Newport on the Christina.

It was not until much later that I recognized how provincial, indeed how colonial, and in the case of the older inhabitants, how Chekhovian that life was, and sensed the Chekhovian autumn that hung over it.