Definitions for colonial
kəˈloʊ ni əlcolo·nial

Princeton's WordNet(4.33 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. colonial(adj)

   a resident of a colony

2. colonial(adj)

   of or relating to or characteristic of or inhabiting a colony

3. colonial(adj)

   of animals who live in colonies, such as ants

4. colonial, compound(adj)

   composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony

   "coral is a colonial organism"

Wiktionary(2.90 / 11 votes)Rate this definition:

1. colonial(Noun)

   A person from a country that is or was controlled by another.

2. colonial(Noun)

   A house that is built in a style reminiscent of the period of the colonization of New England.

3. colonial(Adjective)

   of or pertaining to a colony.

4. colonial(Adjective)

   of or pertaining to a period when a country or territory was a colony.

5. colonial(Adjective)

   of or relating to the original Thirteen Colonies of the USA.

6. colonial(Adjective)

   of or relating to the style of architecture prevalent at about the time of the Revolution

Webster Dictionary(3.00 / 4 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Colonial(adj)

   of or pertaining to a colony; as, colonial rights, traffic, wars

Origin: [Cf. F. colonial.]

Freebase(3.00 / 4 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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.

British National Corpus

1. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'colonial' in Adjectives Frequency: #747

How to pronounce colonial?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of colonial in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of colonial in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of colonial in a Sentence

1. Jennifer Lawrence:

   There’s a colonial woman on the plane, she’s wearing ….

2. Juan Manuel:

   Questions about navigation, world trade, about colonial costs, will be answered.

3. Mitchell Reiss:

   At Colonial Williamsburg, we well know that a nation’s past is a foundation for its future.

4. Justice Samuel Alito:

   A fish does not spring to mind -- nor does an antelope, a colonial farmhouse, a hydrofoil or an oil derrick.

5. Martine Gosselink:

   It's not a matter of whitewashing our Dutch history, we do think that old colonial terms are also part of it.

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