What does colonize mean?
Definitions for colonize
ˈkɒl əˌnaɪzcol·o·nize
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Princeton's WordNet
colonize, coloniseverb
settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world
"Europeans colonized Africa in the 17th century"
colonize, coloniseverb
settle as colonists or establish a colony (in)
"The British colonized the East Coast"
Wikipedia
colonize
Colonization, or colonisation, constitutes large-scale population movements wherein migrants maintain strong links with their, or their ancestors', former country – by such links, gain advantage over other inhabitants of the territory. When colonization takes place under the protection of colonial structures, it may be termed settler colonialism. This often involves the settlers dispossessing indigenous inhabitants, or instituting legal and other structures which disadvantage them.Colonization can be defined as a process of establishing foreign control over target territories or peoples for the purpose of cultivation, often by establishing colonies and possibly by settling them.In colonies established by Western European countries in the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand, settlers (supplemented by Central European, Eastern European, Asian, and African people) eventually formed a large majority of the population after assimilating, warring with, or driving away indigenous peoples. Elsewhere Western European settlers formed minority groups, often dominating the non-Western European majority.During the European colonization of Australia, New Zealand, and other places in Oceania, explorers, and colonists often regarded the landmasses as terra nullius ("empty land" in Latin). Owing to the absence of Western farming techniques, Europeans deemed the land unaltered by mankind and therefore treated it as uninhabited, despite the presence of indigenous populations. In the 19th century, laws and ideas such as Mexico's General Colonization Law and the United States' manifest destiny doctrine encouraged further colonization of the Americas, already begun in the 15th century. Despite countless declarations and referendums from the United Nations on the independence of colonial countries and peoples, implemented since 1946, there are in the world still over 60 colonies – sometimes designated territories – including Puerto Rico, Guam, and Bermuda.
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colonize
Colonize refers to the process of establishing a colony or settlements in a new territory or region, often by a group of people from one geographical area. This action often involves the political, economic, or social control of that territory by the group, potentially leading to the exploitation of the territory's resources, cultural assimilation, or subjugation of its original inhabitants.
Webster Dictionary
Colonizeverb
to plant or establish a colony or colonies in; to people with colonists; to migrate to and settle in
Colonizeverb
to remove to, and settle in, a distant country; to make a colony
Etymology: [Cf. F. coloniser.]
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of colonize in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of colonize in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of colonize in a Sentence
As a result they create more and more slaves, they want to colonize the south of Europe and so the peoples of southern Europe have to unite.
(The findings) tells us to expect dramatic and dynamic changes to the Arctic ecosystem as it transforms in the face of continued warming, some animals that don’t currently live in the Arctic will colonize that region, and some of them will adapt to their new environment in ways that parallel Ignacius. Likewise, we can expect some of the new colonists to diversify in the Arctic, just as Ignacius did.
You can call them whatever term you want but absolutely there are neighborhoods where we have communities of people that don't want to integrate, don't want to assimilate, they're actually going in there to colonize, to overtake the culture. That's what's going to happen in America if we're not careful.
This is ideological colonization. They colonize people with ideas that try to change mentalities or structures, but this is not new. This was done by the dictatorships of the last century.
What we've been able to tease out from the mathematical model is it's not necessarily that these cells are migrating in a directed way, actually these cells are diffusing, there's no direction to their migration. It's like when you put a drop of milk into a cup of coffee that you haven't stirred. Eventually that milk will be spread evenly throughout your coffee, and these cells are doing the same sort of thing - they're moving in an undirected manner and eventually, slowly, they manage to fully colonize the skin of this animal.
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