Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An original settler or founder of a colony.
- noun An inhabitant of a colony.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An inhabitant of a colony; a settler in a colony; a member of a colonizing expedition.
- noun An animal or a plant found in a country or region in which it is not indigenous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A member or inhabitant of a colony.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who is a founder of a
colony . - noun The original persons of a colony.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country
Etymologies
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Examples
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My great+ grandfather was an Austin colonist and his son, my great+ uncle, was at San Jacinto.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Illegal Immigration and the Rule of Law 2010
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Radu Dracul, a colonist from the alien world Twilight, having chosen to leave his home and become a starship crew member, discovers he has abilities he never dreamed of.
March 2010 2010
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Radu Dracul, a colonist from the alien world Twilight, having chosen to leave his home and become a starship crew member, discovers he has abilities he never dreamed of.
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The potential value of a grown-up colonist is supposed to be $300.
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The book takes the form of a memoir of Casseia Majumdar, a human inhabitant of Mars in the place of "inhabitant", I nearly wrote "colonist"--the main conflict of the novel lays in the difference between those two terms.
Archive 2006-12-01 Fred Perry 2006
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The book takes the form of a memoir of Casseia Majumdar, a human inhabitant of Mars in the place of "inhabitant", I nearly wrote "colonist"--the main conflict of the novel lays in the difference between those two terms.
Moving Mars Fred Perry 2006
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A colonist is the most beautiful crittur in natur to try experiments on, you ever see; for he is so simple and good-natured he don't know no better; and so weak, he couldn't help himself if he did.
The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Complete Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830
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A colonist is the most beautiful crittur in natur to try experiments on, you ever see; for he is so simple and good-natured he don't know no better; and so weak, he couldn't help himself if he did.
The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Volume 02 Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830
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He was not going to allow himself to be pushed onto anything foolish, whether this "colonist" could read his mind or not.
Star Born Andre Norton 1958
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He was not going to allow himself to be pushed onto anything foolish, whether this "colonist" could read his mind or not.
Star Born Norton, Andre 1957
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