Crossword clues for colonize
colonize
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Colonize \Col"o*nize\, v. i.
To remove to, and settle in, a distant country; to make a
colony.
--C. Buchanan.
Colonize \Col"o*nize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Colonized; p. pr. &
vb. n. Colonizing.] [Cf. F. coloniser.]
To plant or establish a colony or colonies in; to people with
colonists; to migrate to and settle in.
--Bacon.
They that would thus colonize the stars with
inhabitants.
--Howell.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, "to settle with colonists," from stem of Latin colonus "tiller of the soil, farmer" (see colony); in sense "to make another place into a national dependency" without regard for settlement there by 1790s (such as in reference to French activity in Egypt or British work in India), and probably directly from colony.\n\nNo principle ought ever to be tolerated or acted upon, that does not proceed on the basis of India being considered as the temporary residence of a great British Establishment, for the good government of the country, upon steady and uniform principles, and of a large British factory, for the beneficial management of its trade, upon rules applicable to the state and manners of the country.
[Henry Dundas, Chairman of the East-India Company, letter, April 2, 1800]
\nRelated: Colonized; colonizing.\nWiktionary
alt. (context American spelling English) (alternative spelling of colonise English) vb. (context American spelling English) (alternative spelling of colonise English)
WordNet
v. settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world; "Europeans colonized Africa in the 17th century" [syn: colonise] [ant: decolonize, decolonize]
settle as colonists or establish a colony (in); "The British colonized the East Coast" [syn: colonise]
Usage examples of "colonize".
Millennia before humans colonized the planet, Anicca had housed an alien race whom archeologists called Las Fuentes.
To be sure, those were all primitives, whereas now Arvel was dealing with a civilization that sundered the atom, rebuilt the gene, and colonized across interstellar distances.
That such a force had ever existed within the vicinity in historic times seemed most unlikely, and Tarzan conjectured, therefore, that the wall and the gate were of almost unthinkable antiquity, dating, doubtless, from the forgotten age of the Atlantians, and constructed, perhaps, to protect the builders of the Palace of Diamonds from the well-armed forces that had come from Atlantis to work the gold mines of Opar and to colonize central Africa.
As a busy clearinghouse for import and export from a dozen thinly colonized but heavily exploited worlds, Mars had its own perverted style of policing, and the UN grumbled but politely turned its eyes to problems less complex and closer to home.
Street was just the kind of area the dwarfs colonized - on the edge of the less pleasant parts of town, but not all the way there.
Normally quiescent organisms, such as staphylococcus, yeast, pseudomonas, or escherichia, can become deadly when they colonize the surface of some foreign object implanted inside the body.
We were intelligent enough to form a civilization, to develop hyperspatial flight, and to colonize the Galaxy-and, in spreading through the Galaxy, we took many other forms of lifeforms related to each other and to ourselves-along with us.
The area had been colonized by Russian settlers for several hundreds years, and the culture of the Komi, from their language to their dress, bore a close resemblance to the Russian way of life.
They had a complete understanding of the altered genetic mechanisms that let the malaria parasites colonize sickled blood cells, where no malaria parasites had ever been able to boldly go before.
Since exploration of the Galaxy has been completed and all useful planets colonized and equipped with matter-transmitters, spaceships are no longer in use.
The beings multiplied by means of spores - like vegetable pteridophytes, as Lake had suspected - but, owing to their prodigious toughness and longevity, and consequent lack of replacement needs, they did not encourage the large-scale development of new prothallia except when they had new regions to colonize.
The beings multiplied by means of spores--like vegetable pteridophytes, as Lake had suspected--but, owing to their prodigious toughness and longevity, and consequent lack of replacement needs, they did not encourage the large-scale development of new prothallia except when they had new regions to colonize.
Terrestrial Federation is not recognized on a world colonized by the Sirian peoples.
It had never been colonized by any of the European powers, although Britain had been its protector from the 188os when the Boer Republic had threatened to muscle in and take the land from the Tswana tribe.
Urth as somewhat less significant than many of the colonized worlds, and ourselves on a par with the Ascians, and for that matter with the Xanthoderms and many others.