colonise

colonize or colonise (ˈkɒləˌnaɪz)

—vb
1.	to send colonists to or establish a colony in (an area)
2.	to settle in (an area) as colonists
3.	(tr) to transform (a community) into a colony
4.	(of plants and animals) to become established in (a new environment)

colonise or colonise

—vb

'colonizable or colonise

—*adj*

'colonisable or colonise

—*adj*

coloni'zation or colonise

—n

coloni'sation or colonise

—n

'colonizer or colonise

—n

'coloniser or colonise

—n

colonize or colonise (ˈkɒləˌnaɪz)

—vb
1.	to send colonists to or establish a colony in (an area)
2.	to settle in (an area) as colonists
3.	(tr) to transform (a community) into a colony
4.	(of plants and animals) to become established in (a new environment)

colonise or colonise

—vb

'colonizable or colonise

—*adj*

'colonisable or colonise

—*adj*

coloni'zation or colonise

—n

coloni'sation or colonise

—n

'colonizer or colonise

—n

'coloniser or colonise

—n

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Word Origin & History

colonize

1620s, from stem of L. colonus, or directly from Eng. colony. Related: Colonized, pp. adj. (1620s).

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"You and I, Ella, we are the failures. We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known. They have known for thousands of years that to lock a sick person into solitary confinement makes him worse. They have known for thousands of years that a poor man who is frightened of his landlord and of the police is a slave. They have known it. We know it. But do the great enlightened mass of the British people know it? No. It is our task, Ella, yours and mine, to tell them. Because the great men are too great to be bothered. They are already discovering how to colonise Venus and to irrigate the moon. That is what is important for our time. You and I are the boulder-pushers. All our lives, you and I, we'll put all our energies, all our talents into pushing a great boulder up a mountain. The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind."

-Doris Lessing

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