Definition of Colonized

1. Adjective. Inhabited by colonists.

Exact synonyms: Colonised, Settled
Similar to: Inhabited

Definition of Colonized

1. Verb. (past of colonize) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Colonized

1. colonize [v] - See also: colonize

Lexicographical Neighbors of Colonized

coloniser
colonisers
colonises
colonising
colonist
colonists
colonitis
colonitises
colonizable
colonization
colonizationism
colonizationist
colonizationists
colonizations
colonize
colonized (current term)
colonizer
colonizers
colonizes
colonizing
colonnade
colonnaded
colonnades
colonnette
colonnettes
colonocyte
colonocytes
colonogram
colonography
colonometer

Literary usage of Colonized

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The United States and Cuba. by James Mursell Phillippo (1857)
"When first colonized by Europeans. In what localities, and by what nations. ... New York was colonized by the Dutch in 1614, The Swedes, Finns, ..."

2. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"The island of St. Thomas was colonized by the Danes. Before this it had been the refuge of some English vagabonds, who had begun to clear the ground. 1672. ..."

3. The Colonies, 1492-1750 by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1910)
"Plymouth colonized (1620-1621). Among those who thus departed to a strange land, to dwell among a people with habits and speech foreign to The Scrooby . , , ..."

4. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1841)
"... formerly occupied that point ; and their shores were at an early period colonized by a body of English people, who cultivated the indigo upon the soil. ..."

5. Russia by Alfred Rambaud, Edgar Saltus (1902)
"... colonized. GREEK COLONIES AND THE SCYTHIA OF HERODOTUS. THE early Greeks had established factories and founded flourishing colonies on the northern ..."

6. The Classical Gazetteer: A Dictionary of Ancient Geography, Sacred and Profane by William Hazlitt (1851)
"colonized by Milesians ; with a temple of Diana, where the birds called ... colonized by Pelasgi, and next by . ..."

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