colonial

English

Etymology

From colony +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈləʊ.ni.əl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

colonial (comparative more colonial, superlative most colonial)

1. Of or pertaining to a colony.
2. Of or pertaining to a period when a country or territory was a colony.
   • 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:

     From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.

3. (US) Of or relating to the original Thirteen Colonies of the USA.
4. (US) Of or relating to the style of architecture prevalent at about the time of the Revolution.
5. Tending to form colonies (especially of cells). Synonym for colony-forming.

Derived terms

• anticolonial
• colonial goose
• colonialise
• colonialism
• colonialist
• colonialistic
• colonialistically
• coloniality
• colonialize
• colonially
• colonialness
• colonial power
• decolonial
• intercolonial
• intracolonial
• neocolonial
• noncolonial
• postcolonial
• precolonial
• retro-colonial
• semicolonial
• supercolonial
• unicolonial

 

Translations

of or pertaining to a colony

• Arabic: اِسْتِعْمَارِيّ (istiʕmāriyy)
• Belarusian: каланія́льны (kalanijálʹny), колёнія́льны (koljonijálʹny) (Taraškievica)
• Bulgarian: колониа́лен (koloniálen)
• Catalan: colonial (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 殖民的 (zh) (zhímín de); 殖民地的 (zh) (zhímíndì de)

• Czech: koloniální
• Danish: kolonial
• French: colonial (fr)
• Galician: colonial
• German: kolonial (de)
• Greek: αποικιακός (el) (apoikiakós)
• Ido: koloniala (io)
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• Italian: coloniale (it)
• Latin: colōnicus
• Malay: jajahan (ms), koloni, kolonial
• Polish: kolonialny (pl)
• Portuguese: colonial (pt)
• Romanian: colonial (ro)
• Russian: колониа́льный (ru) (koloniálʹnyj)
• Spanish: colonial (es)
• Swedish: kolonial (sv)
• Tagalog: sakupbayanin, sakupin
• Tuvan: колониалдыг (kolonialdıg)
• Ukrainian: колоніа́льний (uk) (koloniálʹnyj)
• Yakut: колониальнай (kolonialnay)

of or pertaining to a period when a country or territory was a colony

• Bulgarian: колониа́лен (koloniálen)
• Danish: kolonial
• Esperanto: kolonia
• French: colonial (fr)
• German: kolonial (de)
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• Greek: αποικιακός (el) (apoikiakós)
• Ido: koloniala (io)
• Portuguese: colonial (pt)
• Russian: колониа́льный (ru) (koloniálʹnyj)
• Swedish: kolonial (sv)

US: of or relating to the original thirteen colonies of the USA

• Danish: kolonial
• French: colonial (fr)
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• Portuguese: colonial (pt)
• Swedish: kolonial (sv)

US: of or relating to the style of architecture

• Bulgarian: колониа́лен (koloniálen)
• French: colonial (fr)
• Ido: koloniala (io)
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• Portuguese: colonial (pt)
• Russian: колониа́льный (ru) (koloniálʹnyj)
• Swedish: kolonial (sv)

Noun

colonial (plural colonials)

1. A person from a country that is or was controlled by another.
   • 2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 150:

     The rest of us had tea and finger sandwiches with members of the royal household, which was very elegant but hard on some of us ill-schooled colonials.

2. (US) A house that is built in a style reminiscent of the period of the colonization of New England.

Translations

person from a country that is or was controlled by another

• Galician: colono m
• Ido: koloniano (io)
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• Portuguese: colono (pt) m

US: house built in a style reminiscent of the colonial period

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Related terms

• colonization

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

colonial m or f (masculine and feminine plural colonials)

1. colonial

Derived terms

• colonialisme
• colonialista

Related terms

• colònia

Further reading

• “colonial” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “colonial”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “colonial” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “colonial” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.lɔ.njal/

• audio:

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Adjective

colonial (feminine coloniale, masculine plural coloniaux, feminine plural coloniales)

1. colonial

Derived terms

• puissance coloniale

Noun

colonial m (plural coloniaux, feminine coloniale)

1. a colonial, a resident of a colony
2. a soldier dispatched to a colony

Further reading

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

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Portuguese

Etymology

From colónia, colônia (“colony”) +‎ -al (“of or relating to”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌko.lo.niˈaw/ [ˌko.lo.nɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /ˌko.loˈnjaw/ [ˌko.loˈnjaʊ̯], /koˌlõ.niˈaw/ [koˌlõ.nɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /koˌlõˈnjaw/ [koˌlõˈnjaʊ̯]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌko.lo.niˈaw/ [ˌko.lo.nɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /ˌko.loˈnjaw/ [ˌko.loˈnjaʊ̯], /koˌlõ.niˈaw/ [koˌlõ.nɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /koˌlõˈnjaw/ [koˌlõˈnjaʊ̯]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌko.lo.niˈaw/ [ˌko.lo.nɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /ˌko.loˈnjaw/ [ˌko.loˈnjaʊ̯], /koˌlo.niˈaw/ [koˌlo.nɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /koˌloˈnjaw/ [koˌloˈnjaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ku.luˈnjal/ [ku.luˈnjaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ku.luˈnjal/ [ku.luˈnjaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ku.luˈnja.li/

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: co‧lo‧ni‧al

Adjective

colonial m or f (plural coloniais)

1. (geopolitics) colonial (relating to colonies: regions ruled by another country)

   Governo colonial.

   Colonial government.

2. (geopolitics) colonial; colonialistic (relating to colonialism)

   Expansão colonial.

   Colonial expansion.

   Synonym: colonialista

3. (chiefly art) colonial (relating to the period when a country was a colony)

   Arquitetura colonial.

   Colonial architecture.

4. (Brazil) relating to the culture of rural immigrant settlements

   Queijo colonial.

   [Type of cheese made by German immigrants].

Derived terms

• colonialismo
• colonialista

Related terms

• coloniano
• colono

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Romanian

Etymology

From French colonial.

Adjective

colonial m or n (feminine singular colonială, masculine plural coloniali, feminine and neuter plural coloniale)

1. colonial

Declension

Declension of colonial

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	colonial		colonială	coloniali	coloniale
	definite	colonialul		coloniala	colonialii	colonialele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	colonial		coloniale	coloniali	coloniale
	definite	colonialului		colonialei	colonialilor	colonialelor

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Spanish

Etymology

colonia +‎ -al

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koloˈnjal/ [ko.loˈnjal]

Adjective

colonial m or f (masculine and feminine plural coloniales)

1. colonial

Derived terms

• anticolonial
• colonialismo
• colonialista
• colonialmente

Further reading

• “colonial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014