colonized

«colonized» in Mova's school dictionary: to go to a faraway land, settle there and take control of… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

verb (colonize, colonizes, colonized, colonizing)

meaning for a pupil

To colonize a place is to go to a faraway land, settle there and take control of it, often with people from another country. tree →

sense in the lessons

in history lessons and tales, settlers from one country colonized a new land and lived there for many years.

examples

• Greek settlers colonized the land by the sea. tree →
• Long ago, many people colonized new islands. tree →
• The settlers colonized the valley and built farms there. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «colonized» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.