Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective inhabited by people who were born in or retain strong ties to another country.
- adjective politically ruled by citizens of another country.
- adjective having a population (of animals or plants) which moved in from another territory.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
colonize .
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- adjective inhabited by colonists
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Examples
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However, despite the strict adherence to British social customs in colonized countries, the influence went both ways, with the countries adopting certain aspects of British culture, and British culture absorbing the customs of the other country.
The Season: Colonies & Commonwealths | Edwardian Promenade 2009
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I cannot speak for other regions that Britain colonized, but I can provide some perspective from India.
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I cannot speak for other regions that Britain colonized, but I can provide some perspective from India.
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Children can contract the bug from a parent who has had boils or lesions, or from a family member who is "colonized" - meaning they carry the bug - but who shows no signs of illness.
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Not that I’ve ever seen it, but I suppose Battlefield Earth did it the other way, with the (equally valid or invalid) analogy of “nonwhite/colonized is to human as white/colonialist is to alien,” as did Independence Day (which I have seen), but Independence Day isn’t exactly intellectually challenging.
Matthew Yglesias » The Racial Politics of Dune and Avatar 2009
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One of the colonized was a twin of the sickest preemie, but she did not develop the severe disease that had so undermined her sister.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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One of the colonized was a twin of the sickest preemie, but she did not develop the severe disease that had so undermined her sister.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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One of the colonized was a twin of the sickest preemie, but she did not develop the severe disease that had so undermined her sister.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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The real issue is that some Zionists appear to believe that fattening the colonized is a remedial tactic when it's not even palliative.
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The real issue is that some Zionists appear to believe that fattening the colonized is a remedial tactic when it's not even palliative.
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