as in settler
a person who settles in a new region
over time the colonists began to sense that they were becoming a people unto themselves
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Recent Examples of colonist
Nova Scotia’s Black population is the oldest in the country, tracing back four centuries since the arrival of French colonists in the 1600s.
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Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Feb. 2025
Afrikaners are the mainly white descendants of predominately Dutch colonists.
—Kate Bartlett, NPR, 7 Feb. 2025
In an executive order, Mr. Trump accused the South African government of discriminating against Afrikaners, an ethnic group in South Africa made up of descendants of European colonists, mostly from the Netherlands, who first arrived there in the 1600s.
—Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 7 Feb. 2025
In the 1750s and 1760s, British troops forcibly removed French colonists from Acadia in Nova Scotia and recruited thousands of Colonists from neighboring New England to move north.
—G. Patrick O'Brien, The Conversation, 3 Mar. 2025
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Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Feb. 2025
Afrikaners are the mainly white descendants of predominately Dutch colonists.
—Kate Bartlett, NPR, 7 Feb. 2025
In an executive order, Mr. Trump accused the South African government of discriminating against Afrikaners, an ethnic group in South Africa made up of descendants of European colonists, mostly from the Netherlands, who first arrived there in the 1600s.
—Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 7 Feb. 2025
In the 1750s and 1760s, British troops forcibly removed French colonists from Acadia in Nova Scotia and recruited thousands of Colonists from neighboring New England to move north.
—G. Patrick O'Brien, The Conversation, 3 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for colonist
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Four settlers then kick and beat him before running away.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
29 Mar. 2025
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Unfortunately, one of its directors, Hamdan Ballal, reportedly was attacked by a group of the same Israeli settlers shown in the film about the West Bank destruction of homes by Israeli soldiers.—
Marcus Jones,
IndieWire,
28 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Chun made his fortune as a crypto pioneer, co-founding F2Pool, once the world's largest bitcoin mining company.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
1 Apr. 2025
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As a pioneer in the space, Thompson feels the weight of representation.—
Tira Urquhart,
Essence,
31 Mar. 2025
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McKinley, after all, presided over America’s 1898 emergence as a colonial empire.—
Robert W. Merry,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
7 Mar. 2025
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Concrete retains its temperature, heat or cold air, better than her previous standard colonial, Feekings said.—
Diana Olick,
CNBC,
12 Mar. 2025
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“Colonist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colonist. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.
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