colonial experience

British  

noun

1. history experience of farming, etc, gained by a young Englishman in colonial Australia

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Other Word Forms

• colonial experiencer
  noun

Example Sentences

“The idea of the Americas as a potential source of gold and gold as a source of wealth is written into the colonial experience from the very beginning,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

"He had seen evidence of maltreatment and atrocities before we went up into the rubber plantations, but I think what he saw there shifted his whole view of the colonial experience," Patrick said.

From BBC • Nov. 30, 2024

Diop has again exposed a neglected corner of the French colonial experience, expanding the country’s literary conversation at a time of heated debate over national identity and culture.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2023

Timothy Kalyegira, a political analyst in Uganda, said there is a lingering “spiritual connection” in some African countries, from the colonial experience to the Commonwealth.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 11, 2022

“The whole colonial experience of trying to solve a related series of 'Indian problems’ had much to do with giving the colonists an identity indissolubly linked to America,” he wrote.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann