colonist
part of speech
noun (a colonist, colonists)
meaning for a pupil
1) A colonist is a person who goes to live in a new land that is ruled by their home country, or who settles a new colony. tree →
2) In history it often means the first settlers from Europe in places such as America, Australia or New Zealand. tree →
sense in the lessons
In history lessons colonists are the settlers who started colonies, for example the colonists in the thirteen American colonies, or the British colonists in Australia. Good lessons also say that the land already belonged to Native peoples, so colonists often took land and harmed the people living there. In science fiction there are colonists on Mars or the Moon. Phrases: «early colonists», «British colonists», «colonists and Native Americans».
examples
- The colonists built small wooden houses near the river. tree →
- Many colonists died during the first hard winter. tree →
- The colonists traded with the local people for food. tree →
- The American colonists did not want to pay taxes to Britain. tree →
- Aboriginal people had lived in Australia long before the colonists arrived. tree →
- In the story, colonists on Mars grow potatoes in domes. tree →
- Our class acted out a meeting between colonists and Native leaders. tree →
- This divinity was introduced into Crete by its first colonists from Phrygia, in Asia Minor, in which country she was worshipped under the name of Cybele. tree →
note
Countable: one colonist, many colonists. Related words: colony, colonial, colonize (US) / colonise (UK). A colonist is not the same as a tourist (who visits) or an immigrant (who joins an existing country); a colonist settles land claimed by their own country. Do not confuse with «colon» (the punctuation mark or the body part).
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «colonist» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.