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Webster 1913 Edition

Colonization

Colˊo-ni-za′tion

,

Noun.

[Cf. F.

colonisation

.]

The act of colonizing, or the state of being colonized; the formation of a colony or colonies.

The wide continent of America invited

colonization

.

Bancroft.

Webster 1828 Edition

Colonization

COLONIZATION

,

Noun.

The act of colonizing, or state of being colonized.

Definition 2024

colonization

colonization

English

Alternative forms

(mostly British) colonisation

Noun

colonization ‎(plural colonizations)

The process of establishing a colony.

Translations

process of establishing a colony

Armenian: գաղութացում (hy) ‎(gałutʿacʿum)
Belarusian: каланіза́цыя f ‎(kalanizácyja)
Bulgarian: колониза́ция f ‎(kolonizácija)
Catalan: colonització f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 殖民地化 (zh) ‎(zhímíndìhuà)
Czech: kolonizace f
Dutch: kolonisatie (nl) f
Esperanto: koloniigo
Estonian: koloniseerimine
Finnish: kolonisaatio (fi)
French: colonisation (fr) f
Georgian: კოლონიზაცია ‎(ḳolonizacia)
German: Kolonisation (de) f, Kolonialisierung f, Besiedlung f
Greek: αποικισμός (el) m ‎(apoikismós)
Hungarian: gyarmatosítás (hu)
Japanese: 植民地化 ‎(しょくみんちか, shokuminchika)
Korean: 식민지화 ‎(singminjihwa)

Latvian: kolonizācija f
Lithuanian: kolonizacija f
Macedonian: колонизација f ‎(kolonizacija)
Maori: whakakoronitanga, whakataiwhenuatanga
Polish: kolonizacja (pl) f
Portuguese: colonização (pt) f
Russian: колониза́ция (ru) f ‎(kolonizácija), заселе́ние (ru) n ‎(zaselénije) (settlement)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: колонизација f

Roman: kolonizacija (sh) f
Slovak: kolonizácia f
Slovene: kolonizacija (sl) f
Spanish: colonización f
Swedish: kolonisation (sv) c, kolonisering c
Turkish: koloni (tr), müstemleke (tr), sömürge (tr)
Ukrainian: колоніза́ція (uk) f ‎(kolonizácija)
Vietnamese: sự chiếm làm thuộc địa (making into a colony), sự di dân (vi) (settlement)

Related terms

colonialism