Etymology
From colonize + -ation, from Latin colÅnia (colony), from colÅnus (farmer, colonist), from colÅ (till, cultivate, worship), from earlier *quelÅ, from Proto-Indo-European *kÊ·el- (to move; to turn around).
Noun
colonization (countable and uncountable, plural colonizations)
- The process of establishing a colony.
- (social sciences) The process of colonizing or taking over a region, country, etc.
Derived terms
- anticolonization
- colonizationism
- colonizationist
- decolonization
- hypercolonization
- monocolonization
- neocolonization
- recolonization
Related terms
- anticolonialist
- colonial
- colonialism
- colonialist
- colonialistic
- colonially
- colonist
- colony
- neocolonialist
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