colonisation

English

Noun

colonisation (countable and uncountable, plural colonisations) (British spelling)

1. Alternative spelling of colonization.
   • 1952 November, “The Western Australian Government Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 760:

     Colonisation began towards the end of 1826, when a British settlement was founded at Albany, on the southern coast, and in the next year the whole territory (then known as New Holland) became a possession of the British Crown.

Derived terms

• decolonisation
• monocolonisation
• recolonisation

 

French

Etymology

From coloniser +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.lɔ.ni.za.sjɔ̃/

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• Rhymes: -jɔ̃
• Homophone: colonisations

Noun

colonisation f (plural colonisations)

1. colonization
   • 1925, Nguyễn Ái Quốc, “XI - Le martyre de la femme indigène”, in Le procès de la colonisation française:

     On disait : ‹ La colonisation, c’est un vol. › Nous ajoutons : un viol et un assassinat.

     It was said: ‘Colonization is robbery.’ We add: rape and murder.

Further reading

• “colonisation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.