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(2.91 / 12 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(3.50 / 6 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Colonial(adj)

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

   Etymology: [Cf. F. colonial.]

Freebase(3.40 / 5 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. Mitchell Reiss:

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

2. Nicolas Butor:

   He ruled Senegal through terror, burning villages and massacring people, yet despite that he continues to be glorified in Lille, we want the Faidherbe statue removed from public space. We need to stop glorifying racist colonial figures.

3. Maria Tam:

   The emergency legislation is something that is left behind by the colonial British government. It's nothing to do with the Basic Law. It's entirely in the power of the highly autonomous region, at the moment there are still plenty of tools. We have different articles in the police force ordinance and articles in the public order ordinance which we can still invoke to control the situation. We haven't got to the stage when we really have to engage in enacted laws by the chief executive with the executive council to, for example, enact anti-mask or interception of internet messages. We're quite a distance from that.

4. Stephanie Coontz:

   Around the early 19th century, men took on this special role as providers and protectors, and with that came a whole ideology. Men began to embrace a masculine identity that was based on not doing women's work, women also began to embrace a new identity, unheard of in colonial days : We are the family expert. We know how to raise kids. We know how to change diapers. Institutions began to be organized around this idea.

5. Kendall Brown:

   Clearly, colonial Spanish American mining was industrial in scale, and the belief that a dramatic man-made impact on the environment only began in the 18th century is a Euro-centric construct.

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