colonialism

English

Etymology

colonial +‎ -ism

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəˈləʊ.njə.lɪ.zəm/, /kəˈləʊ.ni.ə.lɪ.zəm/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kəˈloʊ.njə.lɪ.zəm/, /kəˈloʊ.ni.ə.lɪ.zəm/

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Noun

colonialism (countable and uncountable, plural colonialisms)

1. The policy of a country seeking to extend or retain its authority over other people or territories, generally with the aim of economic dominance.
   • 2008 June 1, A. Dirk Moses, “Preface”, in Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page x:

     Though most of the cases here cover European encounters with non-Europeans, it is not the intention of the book to give the impression that genocide is a function of European colonialism and imperialism alone.

2. A colonial word, phrase, concept, or habit.
   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 239:

     Although the settlement seems so far to have made but slow progress, there are many things which show that, to use a colonialism, "the place was going ahead."

3. Colonial life.

Derived terms

• internal colonialism
• neocolonialism
• postcolonialism
• settler colonialism

 

Translations

policy of authority over people or territories

• Albanian: kolonializëm (sq) m
• Arabic: اِسْتَعْمَارِيَّة f (istaʕmāriyya)
• Armenian: գաղութատիրություն (hy) (gaġutʻatirutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: müstəmləkəçilik, kolonializm
• Belarusian: каланіялі́зм m (kalanijalízm)
• Bulgarian: колониали́зъм m (kolonialízǎm)
• Burmese: ကိုလိုနီဝါဒ (my) (kuiluiniwada.)
• Catalan: colonialisme (ca) m
• Cebuano: kolonyalismo
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 殖民主義／殖民主义 (zh) (zhímínzhǔyì)

• Czech: kolonialismus (cs) m
• Danish: kolonialisme c
• Dutch: kolonialisme (nl) n
• Esperanto: koloniismo
• Estonian: kolonialism
• Finnish: kolonialismi (fi)
• French: colonialisme (fr) m
• Galician: colonialismo (gl) m
• Georgian: კოლონიალიზმი (ḳolonializmi)
• German: Kolonialismus (de) m
• Greek: αποικιοκρατία (el) f (apoikiokratía), αποικισμός (el) m (apoikismós)
• Greenlandic: nunasiaqarneq
• Hebrew: קוֹלוֹנְיָאלִיזְם (he) m (kolonyalízm)
• Hindi: उपनिवेशवाद m (upniveśvād)
• Hungarian: gyarmatosítás (hu), kolonializmus (hu)
• Icelandic: nýlendustefna f
• Indonesian: kolonialisme (id)
• Irish: coilíneachas
• Italian: colonialismo (it) m
• Japanese: 植民地主義 (ja) (しょくみんちしゅぎ, shokuminchishugi)
• Kazakh: отаршылдық (otarşyldyq)
• Khmer: អាណានិគមនិយម (km) (ʼaanaanikumniyum)
• Korean: 식민주의(植民主義) (singminjuui)
• Kyrgyz: колониализм (kolonializm)
• Lao: ລັດທິອານານິຄົມ (lat thi ʼā nā ni khom)
• Latvian: koloniālisms m
• Lithuanian: kolonializmas m
• Macedonian: колонијали́зам m (kolonijalízam)
• Malay: kolonialisme (ms)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: колоничлол (mn) (koloničlol)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kolonialisme m

  Nynorsk: kolonialisme m

• Persian: استعمار (fa) (este'mâr), استعمارگری (este'mârgari)
• Polish: kolonializm (pl) m
• Portuguese: colonialismo (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਉਪਨਿਵੇਸ਼ਵਾਦ (pa) (upaniveśvād), ਬਸਤੀਵਾਦ m (bastīvād)
• Romanian: colonialism (ro) n
• Russian: колониали́зм (ru) m (kolonialízm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: колонијалѝзам m

  Roman: kolonijalìzam (sh) m

• Sicilian: culunialismu
• Slovak: kolonializmus m
• Slovene: kolonializem (sl) m
• Spanish: colonialismo (es) m
• Swahili: ukoloni, beberu (sw)
• Swedish: kolonialism (sv) c
• Tagalog: koloniyalisasyon, koloniyalismo
• Tajik: мустамликадори (mustamlikadori)
• Tatar: колониализм (qolonializm)
• Thai: ลัทธิอาณานิคม (lát-tí-aa-naa-ní-kom)
• Turkish: sömürgecilik (tr), kolonicilik (tr), kolonyalizm (tr), müstemlekecilik (tr)
• Turkmen: kolonializm
• Ukrainian: колоніалі́зм m (kolonialízm)
• Uzbek: mustamlakachilik (uz), kolonializm
• Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa thực dân (主義殖民)
• Welsh: gwladychiaeth f
• Yiddish: קאָלאָניאַליזם m (kolonyalizm)

colonial linguistic expression

• Cebuano: kolonyalismo
• Swahili: beberu (sw)
• Tagalog: koloniyalisasyon, koloniyalismo

colonial life

• Cebuano: kolonyalismo
• Swahili: beberu (sw)
• Tagalog: koloniya, buhay-koloniya, koloniyalisasyon, koloniyalismo

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Translations to be checked

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} colonialismo (it)
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} kolonijalizam (sh) m

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French colonialisme. Equivalent to colonial +‎ -ism.

Noun

colonialism n (uncountable)

1. colonialism

Declension

declension of colonialism (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) colonialism	colonialismul
genitive/dative	(unui) colonialism	colonialismului
vocative	colonialismule