colonizer
a nation or government that claims a territory other than its own, forcibly taking control over the population and resources located in that territory and usually sending some of its own people to settle there: In the past, whole continents have been appropriated by colonizers such as Britain, Spain, France, and Portugal.
any of the settlers who come from such a nation to live in or help control the territory their government has claimed:The Red River was the scene of a major historic battle between European colonizers and Canada’s Indigenous people.
Often Disparaging and Offensive. a descendant of any of these settlers, or any person belonging to their culture and enjoying the advantages of the power structure set up by the colonizing nation.
a person who is among the first to settle in an area: The initial colonizers of the Arctic were thought to have descended from inhabitants of the forested south.
Biology. a species of plant or animal that moves or is transported to a new habitat and seeks to establish itself there: Ecologists are interested in why some species are successful colonizers while others are not.
Microbiology, Medicine/Medical. a microbe that multiplies in or on another organism, especially one that does so without causing disease or infection, such as certain bacteria in the gut or on the skin of humans.
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How to use colonizer in a sentence
I had no new desk to colonize with my favorite knick-knacks and photos, and I still don’t know what the best office lunch spots are.
The pace at which he envisions these happening in order to make it possible to colonize Mars with a continuous human population requires the kind of rapid recycling and reflying of Super Heavy he described today with this proposed new landing method.
Elon Musk says SpaceX will attempt to recover Super Heavy rocket by catching it with launch tower | Darrell Etherington | December 30, 2020 | TechCrunchFuturists often say that these visions “colonize the future,” analogous to the colonization of continents belonging to other peoples.
Toys Are the Future of Philosophy - Issue 93: Forerunners | Jonathon Keats | December 9, 2020 | NautilusThe question for visionary artists, innovative toy makers, and responsible parents is how to avoid cultural imperatives that colonize the future.
Toys Are the Future of Philosophy - Issue 93: Forerunners | Jonathon Keats | December 9, 2020 | NautilusThey’re now colonizing the TikTok Wild West, and in 2021 the app is fated to evolve into a full-on business model.
Crystal Ball 2021: Predictions for the economy, politics, technology, and more | lbelanger225 | December 1, 2020 | Fortune
Russia is of course the colonizer and there was a sort of “mental revolution” against Russian power.
Inside ‘Maidan’: Sergei Loznitsa on His Ukrainian Uprising Doc and Putin’s ‘Fascist’ Regime | Richard Porton | May 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhen it came to Haiti, France was first a brutal colonizer, and then a usurious bully.
We have not spoken of the Chancellor as an argonaut, of the Chancellor as a colonizer.
The Arena | VariousCaptain John Smith, soldier, colonizer and Virginian planter, writing in 1606 describes two sorts of wild grapes.
The Grapes of New York | U. P. HedrickThe notion, so widely current in this country, that Spain "failed" as a colonizer, arises from a faulty method.
The Colonization of North America | Herbert Eugene BoltonRoberval, French colonizer, 82;commissioned viceroy and lieutenant-general of Canada, 82.
The Colonization of North America | Herbert Eugene BoltonWith this inglorious departure ends the career of the first great French colonizer.
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