"colonize" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /ˈkɑlənaɪz/ [General-American], /ˈkɒlənaɪz/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-colonize.wav [Southern-England] Forms: colonizes [present, singular, third-person], colonizing [participle, present], colonized [participle, past], colonized [past]
Etymology: colony + -ize. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|colony|ize}} colony + -ize Head templates: {{en-verb}} colonize (third-person singular simple present colonizes, present participle colonizing, simple past and past participle colonized)
  1. (transitive) To settle (a place) with colonists, and hence make (a place) into a colony. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-colonize-en-verb-oOXceNPP Categories (other): Colonialism Disambiguation of Colonialism: 28 27 2 34 8
  2. (transitive) To settle (a group of people, a species, or the like) in a place as a colony. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-colonize-en-verb-VGD5Q0ym Categories (other): Colonialism Disambiguation of Colonialism: 28 27 2 34 8
  3. (transitive) To settle among and establish control over (the indigenous people of an area). Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-colonize-en-verb--JBigUP3
  4. (intransitive) To begin a colony or colonies. Tags: intransitive Translations (to begin a new colony): koloniseer (Afrikaans), kolonizoj (Albanian), ἀποικίζω (apoikízō) (Ancient Greek), استعمر (istaʕmar) [Egyptian-Arabic] (Arabic), colonizar (Asturian), müstəmləkələşdirmək (Azerbaijani), каланізава́ць (kalanizavácʹ) [imperfective, perfective] (Belarusian), колонизи́рам (kolonizíram) (Bulgarian), colonitzar (Catalan), 拓殖 (tuòzhí) (Chinese Mandarin), 殖民 (zhímín) (Chinese Mandarin), kolonizovat (Czech), kolonisere (Danish), koloniseren (Dutch), asuttaa (Finnish), kolonisoida (Finnish), coloniser (French), colonizar (Galician), kolonisieren (German), αποικίσει (apoikísei) (Greek), gyarmatosít (Hungarian), kolonizál (Hungarian), colonizzare (Italian), kolonizēt (Latvian), kolonizuoti (Lithuanian), колонизи́ра (kolonizíra) (Macedonian), whakakoroni (Maori), kolonisere (Norwegian Bokmål), colonizar (Occitan), استعمار کردن (este'mâr kardan) (Persian), kolonizować [imperfective] (Polish), skolonizować [perfective] (Polish), colonizar (Portuguese), mitmay (Quechua), coloniza (Romanian), колонизи́ровать (kolonizírovatʹ) [imperfective, perfective] (Russian), колонизи́рати [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), kolonizírati [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), kolonizovať (Slovak), kolonizirati (Slovene), colonizar (Spanish), kolonisera (Swedish), sömürgeleştirmek (Turkish), колонізува́ти (kolonizuváty) [imperfective, perfective] (Ukrainian), заселя́ти (zaseljáty) [imperfective] (Ukrainian), засели́ти (zaselýty) [perfective] (Ukrainian), קאָלאָניזירן (kolonizirn) (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-colonize-en-verb-Wy2Sm0Nx Categories (other): Colonialism Disambiguation of Colonialism: 28 27 2 34 8 Disambiguation of 'to begin a new colony': 19 18 1 55 8
  5. (transitive, social sciences, by extension) To intrude into and take over (the autonomy, experience, social movement, etc, of a less powerful person or group); to commandeer or appropriate. Tags: broadly, transitive Categories (topical): Social sciences
    Sense id: en-colonize-en-verb-C9hKj-gs Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ize Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 5 3 20 52 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ize: 18 12 10 18 42 Topics: human-sciences, sciences, social-science, social-sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: colonise (english: non-Oxford British English) Derived forms: colonization, neo-colonize (alt: neo-colonise), self-colonize (alt: self-colonise) Related terms: colonial, colonialism, colonist, colony Translations (to inhabit a new place): whakataiwhenua (Maori)
Disambiguation of 'to inhabit a new place': 37 31 8 6 18

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          "word": "колонизи́ра"
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          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "word": "whakakoroni"
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          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
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          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "este'mâr kardan",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "word": "استعمار کردن"
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "kolonizować"
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          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
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          "code": "pt",
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          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "word": "colonizar"
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          "code": "qu",
          "lang": "Quechua",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
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          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "kolonizírovatʹ",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "колонизи́ровать"
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          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
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          "word": "колонизи́рати"
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          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
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          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "word": "kolonizovať"
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          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "word": "kolonizirati"
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "word": "colonizar"
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          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "word": "kolonisera"
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          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "word": "sömürgeleştirmek"
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          "roman": "kolonizuváty",
          "sense": "to begin a new colony",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "колонізува́ти"
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          "ref": "2015, Kwok Pui-Lan, Laura E. Donaldson, Postcolonialism, Feminism and Religious Discourse",
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          "text": "[…] suggesting that organisational discourses of heteronormativity cannot fully colonise gay sexualities and genders.",
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          "ref": "2017, Christopher J. Lebron, The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea",
          "text": "The burden of judgment imposed by the politics of respectability can easily colonize black minds.",
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        {
          "ref": "2017 June 13, One Year After Pulse, Don't You Dare Come for Any of Us (Lambda Legal)",
          "text": "To have our grief colonized to facilitate a racist political agenda was beyond offensive."
        },
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          "ref": "2021 August 23, Libby Brooks, quoting Kathleen Jamie, “Scotland’s new makar Kathleen Jamie: ‘Poetry is at the heart of our culture’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
          "text": "These award-winning works of nature writing have extended and enhanced a genre that Jamie herself has criticised, describing it as “colonised by middle-class white men”.",
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      "sense": "to inhabit a new place",
      "word": "whakataiwhenua"
    }
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}
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        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Kwok Pui-Lan, Laura E. Donaldson, Postcolonialism, Feminism and Religious Discourse",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Nick Rumens, Queer Company: The Role and Meaning of Friendship in Gay Men's Work",
          "text": "[…] suggesting that organisational discourses of heteronormativity cannot fully colonise gay sexualities and genders.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Christopher J. Lebron, The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea",
          "text": "The burden of judgment imposed by the politics of respectability can easily colonize black minds.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 June 13, One Year After Pulse, Don't You Dare Come for Any of Us (Lambda Legal)",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 August 23, Libby Brooks, quoting Kathleen Jamie, “Scotland’s new makar Kathleen Jamie: ‘Poetry is at the heart of our culture’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
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      "word": "colonise"
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      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to inhabit a new place",
      "word": "whakataiwhenua"
    },
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      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "koloniseer"
    },
    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "kolonizoj"
    },
    {
      "code": "arz",
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      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "ast",
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      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "colonizar"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "müstəmləkələşdirmək"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "kalanizavácʹ",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "tags": [
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        "perfective"
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      "word": "каланізава́ць"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "kolonizíram",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "колонизи́рам"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "colonitzar"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "tuòzhí",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "拓殖"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhímín",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "殖民"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "kolonizovat"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "kolonisere"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "koloniseren"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "asuttaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "kolonisoida"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "coloniser"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "colonizar"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "kolonisieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "apoikísei",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "αποικίσει"
    },
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      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "apoikízō",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "ἀποικίζω"
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    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "gyarmatosít"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "kolonizál"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "colonizzare"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "kolonizēt"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "kolonizuoti"
    },
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      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "kolonizíra",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "колонизи́ра"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "whakakoroni"
    },
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      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "kolonisere"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "colonizar"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "este'mâr kardan",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "استعمار کردن"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "kolonizować"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "skolonizować"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "colonizar"
    },
    {
      "code": "qu",
      "lang": "Quechua",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "mitmay"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "coloniza"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kolonizírovatʹ",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "колонизи́ровать"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "колонизи́рати"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
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      "word": "kolonizírati"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "kolonizovať"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "kolonizirati"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "colonizar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "kolonisera"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "sömürgeleştirmek"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "kolonizuváty",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "колонізува́ти"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "zaseljáty",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "заселя́ти"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "zaselýty",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "засели́ти"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "kolonizirn",
      "sense": "to begin a new colony",
      "word": "קאָלאָניזירן"
    }
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}

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