What does COLONIAL mean?
Definitions for COLONIAL
kəˈloʊ ni əlcolo·nial
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word COLONIAL.
Princeton's WordNet
colonialadjective
a resident of a colony
colonialadjective
of or relating to or characteristic of or inhabiting a colony
colonialadjective
of animals who live in colonies, such as ants
colonial, compoundadjective
composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony
"coral is a colonial organism"
Wiktionary
colonialnoun
A person from a country that is or was controlled by another.
colonialnoun
A house that is built in a style reminiscent of the period of the colonization of New England.
colonialadjective
of or pertaining to a colony.
colonialadjective
of or pertaining to a period when a country or territory was a colony.
colonialadjective
of or relating to the original Thirteen Colonies of the USA.
colonialadjective
of or relating to the style of architecture prevalent at about the time of the Revolution
ChatGPT
colonial
Colonial pertains to or is characteristic of a colony or colonies, mainly used to refer to the period when a certain territory or country was under the political control of another distant country. It may also refer to the system by which countries maintain and establish colonies and exploit them for resources. It can additionally describe something that is influenced or shaped by these respective colonial periods, such as architecture, culture, or history.
Webster Dictionary
Colonialadjective
of or pertaining to a colony; as, colonial rights, traffic, wars
Etymology: [Cf. F. colonial.]
Wikidata
Colonial
The Colonial, also known as the Colonial Express, was a service of the Pennsylvania Railroad and New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad between Union Station in Washington, DC and South Station in Boston, Massachusetts. It was operated until 1973 by Amtrak.
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Rank popularity for the word 'COLONIAL' in Adjectives Frequency: #747
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of COLONIAL in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of COLONIAL in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of COLONIAL in a Sentence
Our study demonstrates that since the colonial time, mining and metallurgic activities performed by the Spanish didalsohave an impacton very distant areas.
We shut down 10,000 jobs with the Keystone Pipeline here in the United States of America and then they permitted the Russian pipeline to continue to be built that will threaten the heart of Europe's energy infrastructure and of course you were referring to the cyber attack on the Colonial Pipeline, president Trump and our team were very clear about what we would do in response to cyber attacks. We changed. It's a pretty arcane idea, but we changed the NSPM, the rules that permitted us to respond to these attacks. I hope that the Biden administration will use the tools that we provided.
Our goal was and is to find a common path to genuine reconciliation in memory of the victims. This includes naming the events of the German colonial period in what is now Namibia, and in particular the atrocities in the period from 1904 to 1908, without sparing or glossing over them. We will now also officially call these events what they were from today's perspective : a genocide.
It's not a matter of whitewashing our Dutch history, we do think that old colonial terms are also part of it.
The restarting of The Colonial Pipeline is the beginning of the end of the crisis, not the end of the end of the supply crunch, with an operational pipeline, the race to logistically replenish regional and localized gas stations is the next step.
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Translations for COLONIAL
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- استعماريArabic
- колониаленBulgarian
- colonialCatalan, Valencian
- koloniálníCzech
- kolonialDanish
- kolonialGerman
- αποικιακόςGreek
- koloniaEsperanto
- colonialSpanish
- siirtomaa-Finnish
- colonialFrench
- coilíneachIrish
- gyarmatiHungarian
- kolonialIndonesian
- colonialeItalian
- coloniaeLatin
- koloni, kolonial, jajahanMalay
- koloniaalDutch
- kolonialNorwegian
- kolonialnyPolish
- colonialPortuguese
- colonialRomanian
- колониа́льныйRussian
- kolonialSwedish
- காலனித்துவTamil
- వలసTelugu
- โคโลเนียลThai
- sömürgeTurkish
- thuộc địaVietnamese
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