亚洲网紅露点

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colonial

[ kuh-loh-nee-uhl ]

adjective

  1. of, concerning, or pertaining to a colony or colonies:

    the colonial policies of France.

  2. of, concerning, or pertaining to colonialism; colonialistic.
  3. (often initial capital letter) pertaining to the 13 British colonies that became the United States of America, or to their period.
  4. Ecology. forming a colony.
  5. (initial capital letter) Architecture, Furniture.
    1. noting or pertaining to the styles of architecture, ornament, and furnishings of the British colonies in America in the 17th and 18th centuries, mainly adapted to local materials and demands from prevailing English styles.
    2. noting or pertaining to various imitations of the work of American colonial artisans.


noun

  1. an inhabitant of a colony.
  2. a house in or imitative of the Colonial style.

colonial

/ 办蓹藞濒蓹蕣苍瑟蓹濒 /

adjective

  1. of, characteristic of, relating to, possessing, or inhabiting a colony or colonies
  2. often capital characteristic of or relating to the 13 British colonies that became the United States of America (1776)
  3. often capital of or relating to the colonies of the British Empire
  4. denoting, relating to, or having the style of Neoclassical architecture used in the British colonies in America in the 17th and 18th centuries
  5. of or relating to the period of Australian history before Federation (1901)
  6. (of organisms such as corals and bryozoans) existing as a colony of polyps
  7. (of animals and plants) having become established in a community in a new environment
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a native of a colony
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 肠辞藞濒辞苍颈补濒濒测, adverb
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 肠辞路濒辞顎僴颈路补濒路濒测 adverb
  • 苍辞苍顎卌辞路濒辞顎僴颈路补濒 adjective noun
  • non顎叧Υ锹繁舸穷僴颈路补濒路濒测 adverb
  • 辫谤辞顎卌辞路濒辞顎僴颈路补濒 adjective noun
  • 蝉别尘顎卛路肠辞路濒辞顎僴颈路补濒 adjective
  • sem顎卛路肠辞路濒辞顎僴颈路补濒路濒测 adverb
  • 耻苍顎卌辞路濒辞顎僴颈路补濒 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of colonial1

An Americanism dating back to 1770鈥80; colony + -al 1
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It has been beset on all sides by threats of one kind or another, since, really colonial times, but most recently, that threat has come in the form of mining.

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They have cut ties with former colonial power France and allied with Russia instead.

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His independent streak and defiance of colonial protocols often landed him in trouble - tainting his reputation and perhaps even erasing parts of his contribution from global memory.

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Stately, white colonials are on one block, while modest Spanish revivals sit on the next.

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Relations with France, the former colonial power and previously a close ally of the Bongo regime, are warm.

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