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Definition: Colonize |
ColonizeVerb1. Settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world; "Europeans colonized Africa in the 17th century". 2. Settle as colonists or establish a colony (in): "The British colonized the East Coast". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "colonize" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
Synonym: ColonizeSynonym: colonise (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: decolonize (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Location | Inhabit; (be present); domesticate, colonize; take root, strike root; anchor; cast anchor, come to an anchor; sit down, settle down; settle; take up one's abode, take up one's quarters; plant oneself, establish oneself, locate oneself; squat, perch, hive, se nicher, bivouac, burrow, get a footing; encamp, pitch one's tent; put up at, put up one's horses at; keep house. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Colonize |
| English words defined with "colonize": Cecil J. Rhodes, Cecil John Rhodes, Cecil Rhodes, Colonizing ♦ Ralegh, Raleigh, Recolonize, Rhodes ♦ Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Raleigh ♦ Walter Ralegh, Walter Raleigh. (references) |
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Screenplays | By late in the 21st century, the nations of the Earth were finally at peace, working together to explore and colonize the distant reaches of space. (Enemy Mine; writing credit: Barry Longyear; Edward Khmara) | |
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 | Candida spp. are ubiquitous and colonize over 50% of healthy individuals. Up to 14% of patients with immunocompromising disease develop systemic candidiasis which predominantly infects mucous membranes. Credit: CDC. |  | Salmonella typhi, the bacterium responsible for causing Typhoid Fever, has a preference for the gallbladder, and if present will colonize the surface of gallstones, which is how people become long term carriers of the disease. Credit: CDC. |
 | The left hand portion of this image shows the natural marsh at Lake Barre, the foreground shows the newly planted S. alterniflora seedlings beginning to colonize. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. | ||
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Health | Scientists have discovered that some intestinal bacteria recognize when they are in a human host and respond by activating a particular set of virulence genes that enable the organism to colonize the host and cause disease. (references) | |
Cysts are the parasite stage responsible for transmission of balantidiasis . The host most often acquires the cyst through ingestion of contaminated food or water . Following ingestion, excystation occurs in the small intestine, and the trophozoites colonize the large intestine . The trophozoites reside in the lumen of the large intestine of humans and animals, where they replicate by binary fission, during which conjugation may occur . Trophozoites undergo encystation to produce infective cysts . Some trophozoites invade the wall of the colon and multiply. (references) | ||
Economic History | Tanzania | This control was nominal, however, because the Portuguese did not colonize the area or explore the interior. (references) |
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| "Colonize" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 78.95% of the time. "Colonize" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 78.95% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 21.05% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 19 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "colonize": re-colonize. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
colonize | 19 |
colonize mars | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "colonize"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kolonizoj (settle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نزل في مستعمرة, إستوطن (settle, settle down, settle in), إستعمر (settle), أنشأ مستعمرة, أقام في مستعمرة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | колонизирам, заселвам (denizen, immigrate, people, pioneer, plant, populate, settle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 开"殖民地 (colonise, colonised, Colonized, Colonizing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | osídlovat, kolonizovat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | koloniseren. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | koloniigi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مهاجرت کردن (Emigrate, Migrate, Transplant), تشکیل مستعمره دادن , ساکن شدن در. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | asuttaa (populate, settle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | coloniser, se coloniser, faire une colonie, descendre dans une colonie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kolonisieren (settle in). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | επιοικίζω, αποικίζω (colonise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לישב (accommodate, mediate, people, populate, settle), ל"קים מושב. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | meghódít (captivate, conquer, to captivate, to conquer), gyarmatosít (to colonize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | menjajah (takeo ver (a country), tour, traverse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | colonizzare (colonise, settle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | clannaghey (populate, thicken, thicken as liquid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | olonizecay colonizar (plant, settle). (various references) coloniza (settle), se stabili (fix, make one's abode, squat), se aşeza (install, perch, seat, settle, sit, sit down), descãleca (dismount). (various references) колонизировать, поселять. (various references) kolonizovati. (various references) colonizar (pioneer, settle). (various references) bebygga (settle). (various references) sömürgeye yerleştirmek, sömürgeye yerleşmek, sömürge kurmak. (various references) колонізувати, оселятися (haft, settle, settle down, sit down), заселяти, підкоряти пануванню. (various references) gwladychu (inhabit, settle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "colonize": colonized, colonizer, colonizers, colonizes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "colonize": decolonize, recolonize. (additional references) | |
Words containing "colonize": decolonized, decolonizes, recolonized, recolonizes. (additional references) | |
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"Colonize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Collineige, Colognole, colonaise, coloni, colonie, colonise, colonism, corleonese, Kolonji. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "colonize" (pronounced kÄ"lunī'z) |
| 5 | -l u n ī' z | hellenize. |
| 4 | -u n ī' z | agonize, aluminize, antagonize, balkanize, carbonize, communize, demonize, disorganize, euthanize, galvanize, harmonize, homogenize, humanize, ionize, lionize, mechanize, organize, patronize, reorganize, revolutionize, scrutinize, suburbanize, synchronize, unionize, urbanize, womanize. |
| 3 | -n ī' z | fraternize, immunize, ironize, modernize, recognize, westernize. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-l-n-o-o-z" | |
-2 letters: cineol, colone, coloni, coolie, enolic, ozonic. | |
-3 letters: cline, clone, cloze, colin, colon, cozen, cozie, eloin, looie, nicol, oleic, olein, ozone. | |
-4 letters: ceil, cine, cion, clon, coil, coin, cole, cone, coni, cool, coon, enol, icon, leno, lice, lien, line, lino, lion, loci, loco, loin, lone, loon, nice, noel, noil, nolo, oleo, olio, once, ooze. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-l-n-o-o-z" | |
+1 letter: colonized, colonizer, colonizes. | |
+2 letters: colonizers, decolonize, recolonize, solonetzic. | |
+3 letters: colonialize, decolonized, decolonizes, recolonized, recolonizes. | |
+4 letters: colonialized, colonializes, creolization, decolonizing, decolorizing, recolonizing, technologize, zootechnical. | |
+5 letters: creolizations, technologized, technologizes. | |
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