Colonist
noun
A person who settles in a new region or country from their original home, especially during the time of history when countries were being discovered and colonized.
The first colonists to settle in America came from England.
Often appears as...
- early colonists
- british colonists
noun
In biology, an organism that lives in a group with others of its kind, often sharing resources and benefiting each other.
Coral is a colonist species, existing as many individual animals within a colony.
Often appears as...
- colonist species
- colonist organisms
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Academic
noun
A person who settles in a new region or country from their original home, especially during the time of history when countries were being discovered and colonized.
The first colonists to settle in America came from England.
Often appears as...
- early colonists
- british colonists
noun
In biology, an organism that lives in a group with others of its kind, often sharing resources and benefiting each other.
Coral is a colonist species, existing as many individual animals within a colony.
Often appears as...
- colonist species
- colonist organisms
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Context
Colonist implies historical eras of exploration and settlement, recalling times of colonization.
The colonists established a new territory under the crown's rule.
Pro Tip 2/3Implied Hardship
Often suggests challenges faced in establishing a new home in unfamiliar territory.
Colonists braved harsh conditions to build the first settlements.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Impact
Consider the impact colonists had on indigenous populations, which might carry a negative connotation.
Indigenous people suffered due to the colonists' arrival.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Context
Colonist implies historical eras of exploration and settlement, recalling times of colonization.
The colonists established a new territory under the crown's rule.
Pro Tip 2/3Implied Hardship
Often suggests challenges faced in establishing a new home in unfamiliar territory.
Colonists braved harsh conditions to build the first settlements.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Impact
Consider the impact colonists had on indigenous populations, which might carry a negative connotation.
Indigenous people suffered due to the colonists' arrival.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Context
Colonist implies historical eras of exploration and settlement, recalling times of colonization.
The colonists established a new territory under the crown's rule.
Pro Tip 2/3Implied Hardship
Often suggests challenges faced in establishing a new home in unfamiliar territory.
Colonists braved harsh conditions to build the first settlements.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Impact
Consider the impact colonists had on indigenous populations, which might carry a negative connotation.
Indigenous people suffered due to the colonists' arrival.
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World's Biggest Penis...
when Wallace is being hunted by people like the Viking colonists the Norse in Greenland hundreds of years ago they'd also harvest the Bakula from the wall of his at the same time and with all them and carve them and turn them into ax handles and clubs so people would have been killed by being bashed on the head
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The way we think about...
The Puritans came here for religious reasons, or so they said, but they also came here because they wanted to make a lot of money. They were pious people, but they were also really aggressive capitalists, and they were accused of extreme forms of profit-making tendencies, compared to the other colonists.
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TED2015 in review PIPE...
thousand of us who can afford the five hundred thousand dollar one-way ticket I go into Mars and he also said an amazing thing about our are no concerns really that we would travel to Mars with the earthly problems we've so perfected over the millennia he said this colonists
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History vs. Christopher...
"Actually, he was pretty bad, even by old standards. While governing Hispaniola, he tortured and mutilated natives who didn't bring him enough gold and sold girls as young as nine into sexual slavery, and he was brutal even to the other colonists he ruled,
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What It Takes to Keep...
colonists weren't able to recognize how the landscape was shaped by indigenous practices and traditions they'd said well i don't see the kind of manipulations of the land that i recognize i don't see stone walls private individual ownership crops laid
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The history of chocolate...
When the colonists returned with shipments of the strange new bean, missionaries' salacious accounts of native customs gave it a reputation as an aphrodisiac. At first, its bitter taste made it suitable as a medicine for ailments, like upset stomachs,
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It's a church. It's a...
ready to tell their tales to any visitor who will listen. Even before you arrive at the Hagia Sophia, the ancient fortifications hint at the strategic importance of the surrounding city, founded as Byzantium by Greek colonists in 657 BCE.
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Why do we kiss under...
to spread more love into the world. In the 17th century, British colonists arriving in the New World found a different, but very similar looking, species of mistletoe. They applied it to these tales of magic, fertility, and love,
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The story behind the...
You've probably heard of the Boston Tea Party, something about a bunch of angry colonists dressed as Native Americans throwing chests of tea into the water.
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Colonizing Mars PIPE...
Mars is a dry frozen world today but colonists from Earth will someday be looking for ways to make it more like
Video examples
World's Biggest Penis...
when Wallace is being hunted by people like the Viking colonists the Norse in Greenland hundreds of years ago they'd also harvest the Bakula from the wall of his at the same time and with all them and carve them and turn them into ax handles and clubs so people would have been killed by being bashed on the head
Video examples
The way we think about...
The Puritans came here for religious reasons, or so they said, but they also came here because they wanted to make a lot of money. They were pious people, but they were also really aggressive capitalists, and they were accused of extreme forms of profit-making tendencies, compared to the other colonists.
Video examples
TED2015 in review PIPE...
thousand of us who can afford the five hundred thousand dollar one-way ticket I go into Mars and he also said an amazing thing about our are no concerns really that we would travel to Mars with the earthly problems we've so perfected over the millennia he said this colonists
Video examples
History vs. Christopher...
"Actually, he was pretty bad, even by old standards. While governing Hispaniola, he tortured and mutilated natives who didn't bring him enough gold and sold girls as young as nine into sexual slavery, and he was brutal even to the other colonists he ruled,
Video examples
What It Takes to Keep...
colonists weren't able to recognize how the landscape was shaped by indigenous practices and traditions they'd said well i don't see the kind of manipulations of the land that i recognize i don't see stone walls private individual ownership crops laid
Video examples
The history of chocolate...
When the colonists returned with shipments of the strange new bean, missionaries' salacious accounts of native customs gave it a reputation as an aphrodisiac. At first, its bitter taste made it suitable as a medicine for ailments, like upset stomachs,
Video examples
It's a church. It's a...
ready to tell their tales to any visitor who will listen. Even before you arrive at the Hagia Sophia, the ancient fortifications hint at the strategic importance of the surrounding city, founded as Byzantium by Greek colonists in 657 BCE.
Video examples
Why do we kiss under...
to spread more love into the world. In the 17th century, British colonists arriving in the New World found a different, but very similar looking, species of mistletoe. They applied it to these tales of magic, fertility, and love,
Video examples
The story behind the...
You've probably heard of the Boston Tea Party, something about a bunch of angry colonists dressed as Native Americans throwing chests of tea into the water.
Video examples
Colonizing Mars PIPE...
Mars is a dry frozen world today but colonists from Earth will someday be looking for ways to make it more like
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Edward Rutherfurd
British Writer
I descend from both Philadelphia Quakers and Carolina colonists whose families were separated by the Revolutionary War. That helped give me insight into the agony of Patriots who, until the British government denied their claims, had always, like Ben Franklin himself, thought of themselves as free-born Englishmen.
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Annie Besant
English Philosopher
Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as to be forgotten. But they trample with their heavy boots over the sensitive, delicate susceptibilities of an ancient, highly civilized and cultured nation, such as India.
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Charles A. Beard
American Historian
American government did not originate in any abstract theories about liberty and equality, but in the actual experience gained by generation after generation of English colonists in managing their own political affairs. The Revolution did not make a breach in the continuity of their institutional life.
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Jesmyn Ward
American Novelist
I always understood my ancestry, like that of so many others in the Gulf Coast, to be a tangle of African slaves, free men of color, French and Spanish immigrants, British colonists, Native Americans - but in what proportion, and what might that proportion tell me about who I thought I was?
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Edmund Morgan
American Historian
The southern colonists were not preoccupied with their own historical significance and mostly did not bother even to make the records of births, marriages, and deaths that they required of themselves by law. Nor did they write accounts of what they were up to for the benefit of posterity.
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William H. Wharton
American Politician
I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government.
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Samuel Adams
American Revolutionary
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
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Alice Morse Earle
American Historian
It is easy to gain a definite notion of the furnishing of colonial houses from a contemporary and reliable source - the inventories of the estates of the colonists.
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Rachel Maddow
American Journalist
If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
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Orson Welles
American Actor
Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.
Quote examples
Edward Rutherfurd
British Writer
I descend from both Philadelphia Quakers and Carolina colonists whose families were separated by the Revolutionary War. That helped give me insight into the agony of Patriots who, until the British government denied their claims, had always, like Ben Franklin himself, thought of themselves as free-born Englishmen.
Quote examples
Annie Besant
English Philosopher
Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as to be forgotten. But they trample with their heavy boots over the sensitive, delicate susceptibilities of an ancient, highly civilized and cultured nation, such as India.
Quote examples
Charles A. Beard
American Historian
American government did not originate in any abstract theories about liberty and equality, but in the actual experience gained by generation after generation of English colonists in managing their own political affairs. The Revolution did not make a breach in the continuity of their institutional life.
Quote examples
Jesmyn Ward
American Novelist
I always understood my ancestry, like that of so many others in the Gulf Coast, to be a tangle of African slaves, free men of color, French and Spanish immigrants, British colonists, Native Americans - but in what proportion, and what might that proportion tell me about who I thought I was?
Quote examples
Edmund Morgan
American Historian
The southern colonists were not preoccupied with their own historical significance and mostly did not bother even to make the records of births, marriages, and deaths that they required of themselves by law. Nor did they write accounts of what they were up to for the benefit of posterity.
Quote examples
William H. Wharton
American Politician
I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government.
Quote examples
Samuel Adams
American Revolutionary
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
Quote examples
Alice Morse Earle
American Historian
It is easy to gain a definite notion of the furnishing of colonial houses from a contemporary and reliable source - the inventories of the estates of the colonists.
Quote examples
Rachel Maddow
American Journalist
If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
Quote examples
Orson Welles
American Actor
Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.
Example 1 of 10
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