Colonialism

Quick meaning: Colonialism is a noun meaning (colloquial, often derogatory) The subjugation of a weaker country, population, or people by a dominant country, population, or people.

Meaning

(colloquial, often derogatory) The subjugation of a weaker country, population, or people by a dominant country, population, or people.

More Meanings

1. (by extension, derogatory) Any form of foreign influence seen as undesirable.
2. A colonial word, phrase, concept, or habit.
3. Colonial life.
4. The seizure of geographical area to extract its natural resources or exploit the labor of the indigenous peoples to remotely benefit a distant country.

Example Sentences

Although the settlement seems so far to have made but slow progress, there are many things which show that, to use a colonialism, "the place was going ahead."

It was the racist, settler colonialism that created whiteness, that created blackness, half-caste, quarter-caste, octoroon, that saw mixed-race people as a third race.

Though most of the cases here cover European encounters with non-Europeans, it is not the intention of the book to give the impression that genocide is a function of European colonialism and imperialism alone.

Word Forms

• colonialisms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include imperialism, colonial, colony, colonisation, colonization, committee.

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