colonial

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English

Etymology

From colony +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəˈləʊ.ni.əl/
• Rhymes: -əʊniəl

Adjective

colonial (comparative more colonial, superlative most colonial)

1. Of or pertaining to a colony.
2. Of or pertaining to a period when a country or territory was a colony.
3. Of or pertaining to the ideals of colonialism.
4. (US) Of or relating to the original Thirteen Colonies of the USA.
5. (US) Of or relating to the style of architecture prevalent at about the time of the Revolution.
6. Tending to form colonies (especially of cells). Synonym for colony-forming.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

colonial (plural colonials)

1. A person from a country that is or was controlled by another.
2. (US) A house that is built in a style reminiscent of the period of the colonization of New England.

Translations

Related terms

• colonization

Catalan

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

colonial m or f (masculine and feminine plural colonials)

1. colonial

Derived terms

• colonialisme
• colonialista

Related terms

• colònia

Further reading

• “colonial” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “colonial”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “colonial” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “colonial” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.lɔ.njal/

Adjective

colonial (feminine coloniale, masculine plural coloniaux, feminine plural coloniales)

1. colonial

Derived terms

• puissance coloniale

Descendants

• → German: kolonial
• → Romanian: colonial
• → Turkish: kolonial, kolonyal

Noun

colonial m (plural coloniaux, feminine coloniale)

1. a colonial, a resident of a colony
2. a soldier dispatched to a colony

Further reading

• “colonial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Portuguese

Etymology

From colónia／colônia (“colony”) +‎ -al (“of or relating to”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: co‧lo‧ni‧al

Adjective

colonial m or f (plural coloniais)

1. (geopolitics) colonial (relating to colonies: regions ruled by another country)

2. (geopolitics) colonial; colonialistic (relating to colonialism)

   Synonym: colonialista

3. (chiefly art) colonial (relating to the period when a country was a colony)

4. (Brazil) relating to the culture of rural immigrant settlements

Derived terms

• colonialismo
• colonialista

Related terms

• coloniano
• colono

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French colonial. Equivalent to colonie +‎ -al.

Adjective

colonial m or n (feminine singular colonială, masculine plural coloniali, feminine and neuter plural coloniale)

1. colonial

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From colonia +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koloˈnjal/ [ko.loˈnjal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: co‧lo‧nial

Adjective

colonial m or f (masculine and feminine plural coloniales)

1. colonial

Derived terms

Further reading

• “colonial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28