Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who favors colonialism or the colonial principle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a believer in or advocate of colonialism{3}.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
colonialism - noun An advocate of colonialism
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a believer in colonialism
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Examples
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Iran's state-run media quotes the president as saying his country and regional nations are dissatisfied with what he called the "colonialist and arrogant" plans of the U.S. and its partners.
Iran's President Criticizes US, Israel on Mideast Policies 2011
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Iran's state-run media quotes the president as saying his country and regional nations are dissatisfied with what he called the "colonialist and arrogant" plans of the U.S. and its partners.
Iran's President Criticizes US, Israel on Mideast Policies 2011
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Iran's state-run media quotes the president as saying his country and regional nations are dissatisfied with what he called the "colonialist and arrogant" plans of the U.S. and its partners.
Iran's President Criticizes US, Israel on Mideast Policies 2011
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Philip, the half-Chinese son of a wealthy colonialist, is sixteen when he meets Endo-san, an older Japanese man who has rented the small island owned by Philip's family, offshore their palatial home on the Malayan island of Penang.
Man Without a Face Roger Sutton 2009
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Philip, the half-Chinese son of a wealthy colonialist, is sixteen when he meets Endo-san, an older Japanese man who has rented the small island owned by Philip's family, offshore their palatial home on the Malayan island of Penang.
Archive 2009-05-01 Roger Sutton 2009
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The excursion fantasy has a certain colonialist/orientalist subtext to it; the strange is the exotic, the frontier, the wilderness waiting for the indomitable hero to come along and tame (bringing order to its natives in the process.)
Notes on Strange Fiction: Seams Hal Duncan 2008
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The excursion fantasy has a certain colonialist/orientalist subtext to it; the strange is the exotic, the frontier, the wilderness waiting for the indomitable hero to come along and tame (bringing order to its natives in the process.)
Archive 2008-08-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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Sue McKinley (Alice Patten), the Hindi-speaking granddaughter of a colonialist, is attempting to make a film about Indian revolutionary Bhagat Singh, and ends up in Delhi where, with few resources, she embarks on a low-budget film she calls The Young Guns of India.
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They are nurturing to turn Afghanistan into a hotbed of long-term colonialist conspiracies and ambitions …
InI William Bowles 2010
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Are the Americans still referred to as colonialist in the 'New World'?
Azeem Ibrahim: There is Nothing to Discuss on the Falklands' Sovereignty 2010
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