colonial

[kəˈloʊniəl]

Definition:
1. A resident of a colony.
2. Of or relating to or characteristic of or inhabiting a colony.
3. Of animals who live in colonies, such as ants.
4. Composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony.

Use 'colonial' in a sentence:

1. Australia, New Zealand, and Canada had no colonial conflict with the mother country.
2. Ever since America's colonial days, the Caribbean islands have been favorite places to visit.
3. The Old Order Amish, who arrived on American shores in colonial times, have survived in the modern world in distinctive, small communities.
4. The publisher, fearful of being cheated, forced her to submit to his scholarly examination by a board of educated men, including the colonial governor.
5. President Mitterrand arrived in Hanoi yesterday to bury old colonial and cold war enmities.
6. All the morning the colonials had been gathering.
7. They became the greatest traders of the pre-classical world, and were the first people to establish a large colonial network.
8. The Old Order Amish, who arrived on American shores in colonial times, have survived in the modem world in distinctive, small communities.
9. Through this, people can catch a glimpse of European colonial culture.
10. These colonial entrepreneurs helped determine the social character of people who came to preindustrial North America.
11. Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, had no colonial conflict with the mother country.
12. His guerrillas defeated the colonial army in 1954.
13. Colonial tailors, hatters, and other small clothes manufacturers could continue to make any item of dress in their households or small shops.
14. The natives were unwilling to be bent by colonial power.
15. Castine soon became a force in colonial trade and diplomacy.
16. Historically speaking, colonial writing is of absorbing value.
17. British and colonial merchants prospered because of a demand in the colonies for increasing amounts of consumer goods made in Britain.
18. On the development of the urban colonial economy in Middle Henan Province.
19. The term cobra effect stems from an anecdote3 set at the time of British rule of colonial India.
20. In colonial Connecticut between 1670 and 1719, women participated in one of every six civil cases, the vast majority of which were debt-related.
21. The expansion of colonial shipping in turn accelerated urbanization by creating a need for centralized docks, warehouses, and repair shops in the colonies.
22. Both the colonists and the British increasingly consumed clothing and other household items imported from foreign countries by colonial merchants.
23. Therefore, the colonial culture is the important part of Qingdao regional culture.
24. These hand-operated ceiling fans have their origins in colonial India.
25. The people of Africa have successfully fought against colonial rule.
26. In many cases religious persecution is the cause of people fleeing their country. A case in point is colonial India.
27. Amanda, you've asked a lot of questions about trade during the colonial period of the United States.
28. They struck a blow for freedom by assassinating the colonial governor.
29. Phyllis Wheatley was a young African-American slave who belonged to landowner John Wheatley in Colonial America.
30. Britain was once a major colonial power.
31. Although many years later the Americans broke away from their colonial master, the language of English remained, and still does.
32. Dutch colonial authorities imprisoned him for his part in the independence movement.
33. The Construction of Chinese Cultural Identity in Post-colonial Context.
34. On the other hand, there also existed thick preachy significance or culture colonial implication.
35. When Dutch colonial rule ended in the 19th century the civil service was anglicised.
36. According to the standard history of American philosophy, nowhere else in colonial America was "So much important attached to intellectual pursuits".
37. Few of the colonial leaders really wanted separations.
38. I love the colonial fabrics, all the silver work, the furnishings, the combination of elegance and simplicity.
39. Her eventful life included holding senior positions in the Colonial Service.
40. To divide the empire into English core and colonial periphery, as Bailyn does, devalues the achievements of colonial culture.
41. It comes from a country, the United Kingdom, which was quite an expansive, trading, colonial power in the past and all these have brought all sorts of other new words into the language.
42. Some Important Issues in the Study of Colonial American History.
43. Why are you interested in doing something on community planning in colonial times?
44. The word “colonial” is bandied about.
45. the last vestiges of the old colonial regime.
46. The Old Order Amish, who arrived on American shores in colonial times, has survived in the modern world in distinctive, small communities.
47. The mind reverts to the earliest days of colonial history.
48. New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.
49. The swift growth of this merchant marine diversified the northern colonial economy and made it more self-sufficient.
50. I sat on the Colonial bench that was just to the left of the office doorway.
51. Tunisia achieved independence from French colonial rule in 1956.
52. Many Filipinos see the bases as an extension of American colonial rule.
53. He claims that imperialists are trying to re-establish colonial rule in the country.
54. These touching portraits encourage us to see them as agents rather than simply colonial subjects or paid employees.
55. The very best properties, however, the colonial mansions and villas, were reserved for the government.
56. The Colonial Office was absorbed into the Foreign Office.