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 Definitions of Colonial  [əˈloʊ ni əl]  

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Definition of 'Colonial' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (adj.) colonial
of or pertaining to a colony or colonies.

2.  colonial
(often cap.) of or pertaining to the 13 British colonies that became the United States of America, or to their period.

3.  colonial
(of an animal)

4.  colonial
having a way of life that requires being part of a community of its own kind:
Penguins are colonial birds.

5.  colonial
being a partly attached life form.

6.  colonial
(cap.)

7.  colonial
of, pertaining to, or imitative of the styles of architecture, ornament, and furnishings of the British colonies in America in the 17th and 18th centuries.

8. (n.) colonial
an inhabitant of a colony.

9.  colonial
a house in or imitative of the Colonial style.

Etymology:  (1770–80, Amer.)

Definition of 'Colonial' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (adj) colonial
a resident of a colony

2. (adj) colonial
of or relating to or characteristic of or inhabiting a colony

3. (adj) colonial
of animals who live in colonies, such as ants

4. (adj) colonial, compound
composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony
"coral is a colonial organism"


Definition of 'Colonial' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adj) Colonial
of or pertaining to a colony; as, colonial rights, traffic, wars


Translation of 'Colonial' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a collection of animals, birds etc, of one type, living together
a colony of gulls.; Britain was formerly a colonial power.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: koloniaal Arabic flag Arabic: اسْتِعْماري Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: колониален
Brazilian flag Brazilian: colonial Czech flag Czech: koloniální German flag German: Kolonial-...
Danish flag Danish: kolonial; koloni- Greek flag Greek: αποικιακός Spanish flag Spanish: colonial
Estonian flag Estonian: koloniaal- Farsi flag Farsi: استعماری Finnish flag Finnish: siirtomaa-
French flag French: colonial Hebrew flag Hebrew: קוֹלוֹניָאלִי Hindi flag Hindi: औपनिवेशिक, औपनिवेशिक से स
Croatian flag Croatian: kolonijalan Hungarian flag Hungarian: gyarmati Indonesian flag Indonesian: kolonial
Icelandic flag Icelandic: nÿlendu- Italian flag Italian: coloniale Japanese flag Japanese: 植民地の
Korean flag Korean: 식민지의 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: kolonijinis Latvian flag Latvian: koloniāls
Malay flag Malay: kolonial Dutch flag Dutch: koloniaal Norwegian flag Norwegian: koloni-
Polish flag Polish: kolonialny Persian flag Persian: استعماری Pashto flag Pashto: مسعمراتى: استعمارى
Portuguese flag Portuguese: colonial Romanian flag Romanian: colonial Russian flag Russian: колониальная
Slovak flag Slovak: koloniálny Slovenian flag Slovenian: kolonialen Serbian flag Serbian: kolonijalan
Swedish flag Swedish: kolonial Thai flag Thai: เกี่ยวกับอาณานิคม Turkish flag Turkish: sömürgeci
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 殖民地的 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: колоніальний Urdu flag Urdu: استعماری ، نو آباد کاری
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: thực dân Chinese flag Chinese: 殖民地的

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