Colonial (Adjective)
Meaning 1
Of or relating to or characteristic of or inhabiting a colony.
Classification
Relational adjectives (pertainyms).
Examples
- The colonial administration was marked by inefficiency and corruption, which further eroded the native people's trust in their rulers.
- Her dissertation examined the experiences of colonial women during the eighteenth-century migrations to North America.
- A local university had taken an old colonial house to transform it into a historic house museum open to the public.
- Forced relocation, malnutrition, and a generally degraded living condition, especially affected those native groups which previously held semi-independent or non-colonial identities.
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Meaning 2
Composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony; "coral is a colonial organism".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Synonyms
Meaning 3
Of animals who live in colonies, such as ants.
Classification
Relational adjectives (pertainyms).