Synonyms for colonial
kəˈloʊ ni əlcolo·nial

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1. colonialadjective

   a resident of a colony

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2. colonialadjective

   of or relating to or characteristic of or inhabiting a colony

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   simple

3. colonialadjective

   of animals who live in colonies, such as ants

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   compound

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   simple

4. colonial, compoundadjective

   composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony

   "coral is a colonial organism"

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   compound

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   simple

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1. • Zoology

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1. List of paraphrases for "colonial":

   colony, colonialist, colonialism, colonized, colonization, imperialist, colonies, semi-colonial, colonizing, decolonization

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1. Jerry Amokwandoh:

   [ The court ] dismissed the idea that our family life included our family around the world, or our family back home, and they were saying that your family can only be limited to the British isles. It's a colonial mindset.

2. Heiko Maas:

   Our goal was and is to find a common path to genuine reconciliation in memory of the victims. This includes naming the events of the German colonial period in what is now Namibia, and in particular the atrocities in the period from 1904 to 1908, without sparing or glossing over them. We will now also officially call these events what they were from today's perspective : a genocide.

3. The Egyptian:

   Egypt's proposal is an effort to maintain a self-claimed colonial era-based water allocation and veto power on any project in the Nile system.

4. Martine Gosselink:

   It's not a matter of whitewashing our Dutch history, we do think that old colonial terms are also part of it.

5. Amadou Doumbia:

   Sydney Airport is a city that has never really invested deeply in a cohesive plan for being congruent -- at least until now, you look at the city center and it's towering with soaring corporate buildings or incredible colonial era buildings. But the minute you leave these areas, you're faced with a' city' that feels half metropolis and half suburban.