Coloniser (Noun)
Meaning
Someone who helps to found a colony.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The English coloniser sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to establish a new settlement in North America.
- John Winthrop, a prominent Puritan leader, was one of the colonisers of Massachusetts in the 17th century.
- As a coloniser of Australia, John Oxley was tasked with surveying the land and determining its suitability for British settlement.
- Many European colonisers arrived in the Americas with dreams of building a better life and exploiting the natural resources of the New World.
- Roger Williams, a dissenting Puritan, became a coloniser of Rhode Island, where he founded a settlement that welcomed people of different faiths.