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Definition: Colonist |
ColonistNoun1. A person who settle in a new colony or moves into new country. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "colonist" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
Synonym: ColonistSynonym: settler (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inhabitant | Noun: inhabitant; resident, residentiary; dweller, indweller; addressee; occupier, occupant; householder, lodger, inmate, tenant, incumbent, sojourner, locum tenens, commorant; settler, squatter, backwoodsman, colonist; islander; denizen, citizen; burgher, oppidan, cit, townsman, burgess; villager; cottager, cottier, cotter; compatriot; backsettler, boarder; hotel keeper, innkeeper; habitant; paying guest; planter. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Colonist |
| English words defined with "colonist": Anne Hutchinson ♦ Coloner ♦ Hutchinson ♦ Miles Standish, Minnewit, Minuit, Myles Standish ♦ Peter Minnewit, Peter Minuit ♦ Roger Williams ♦ Standish ♦ Williams. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "colonist": Coloner. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Colonist" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Romanian (colonist, colonizer, planter, settler). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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 | A southwestern view of East Boston as seen from Lewis's Wharf, East Boston ferryway. East Boston was formerly known as Noddle's Island. The Maverick Hotel, named for Samuel Maverick a 17th Century colonist, is the large building in the center. In: Historical Collections ... of Every Town in Massachusetts. 1841. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Colonists watching ships, modern soldier with woman and child, colonist nailing up flag, civil war soldiers marching. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Colonist on statue of Maisonneuve, Montreal. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Colonist" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Colonist" is used about 6 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "colonist"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kolonist, kolon (colonial, settler). (various references) | |
Arabic | مستعمر (imperialist, settled, settler), ساكن مستعمرة (colonial), المعمر (chive). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | колонизатор (colonizer), заселник в колония. (various references) | |
Chinese | 殖民. (various references) | |
Czech | kolonista (settler). (various references) | |
Farsi | مهاجر (Emigrant, Evacuee, Immigrant, Income, Migrant, Pilgrim, Refugee), مستعمره نشین , کسیکه درتاسیس مستعمره ای شرکت میکند. (various references) | |
Finnish | uudisasukas (settler), siirtolainen (emigrant, immigrant, settler). (various references) | |
French | colon (colon), vieux (cogged). (various references) | |
German | kolonist (settler). (various references) | |
Greek | άποικοσ (emigrant, settler). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מתישב (compatble with, reconcilable with, settler, squaring), חלוץ במושב". (various references) | |
Hungarian | gyarmatos (colonial, settler). (various references) | |
Italian | pioniere (pathfinder, pioneer). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 開"者 (pioneer, settler). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かいたくしゃ (pioneer, settler). (various references) | |
Korean | 식민지 사람. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | olonistcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | colono (bushman, colonial, settler). (various references) | |
Romanian | colonist (colonizer, planter, settler). (various references) | |
Russian | колонист (frontiersman), поселенец (colonizer, homesteader, settler, squatter). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | naseljenik (homesteader, locator, pilgrim, settler), kolonista. (various references) | |
Spanish | colono (colonial, planter, settler). (various references) | |
Swedish | nybyggare (backwoodsman, frontiersman, planter, settler, squatter), kolonist (settler, squatter). (various references) | |
Turkish | sömürgede yaşayan kimse, sömürgeci (planter). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | колоніст (colonizer, planter), поселенець (colonizer, settler). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tên thực dân người đi khai hoang (colonizer). (various references) | |
Welsh | gwladychwr (settler). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | coloni, colonis, colono, colonos, colonus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "colonist": colonists. (additional references) | |
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"Colonist" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cholonic, collonic, coloni, colonics, colonism, Colonnus, colonocyte, colonos, colonus, Kolonji. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "colonist" (pronounced kÄ"lunust) |
| 5 | -u n u s t | agonist, antagonist, anticommunist, arsonist, accompanist, abolitionist, abortionist, botanist, chauvinist, communist, conservationist, contortionist, illusionist, impressionist, determinist, exhibitionist, expressionist, feminist, interventionist, isolationist, misogynist, nutritionist, obstructionist, organist, preservationist, protagonist, protectionist, receptionist, reservationist, revolutionist, secessionist, segregationist, unionist. |
| 4 | -n u s t | balloonist, cartoonist, cleanest, columnist, hygienist, dishonest, earnest, finest, funnest, greenest, gymnast, harnessed, honest, internist, keenest, leanest, machinist, meanest, modernist, noncommunist, opportunist, pianist, soonest, sternest, tannest, thinnest, violinist, witnessed. |
| 3 | -u s t | agriculturalist, agronomist, alarmist, alchemist, allergist, amethyst, amorist, analyst, anarchist, anatomist, anesthesiologist, anesthetist, angriest, animist, anthropologist, apologist, apprenticed, aquarist, archaeologist, archivist, absolutist, ablest, activist, artist, atheist, August, ballast, barest, behaviorist, biased, bicyclist, biggest, biochemist, biologist, bitterest, blackest, bleakest, bloodiest, bluest, bluntest, boldest, bravest, breakfast, briefest, brightest, broadest, busiest, buttressed, calloused, canoeist, canvassed, capitalist, cardiologist, caricaturist, catalyst, cellist, cheapest, choicest, clarinetist, classicist, closest, coldest, colonialist, conversationalist, coolest, cornettist, craziest, creamiest, criminologist, cruelest, cultist, cyclist, darkest, idealist, ideologist, immunologist, imperialist, deadliest, dearest, deepest, deforest, deist, densest, dentist, dermatologist, direst, dirtiest, disinterest, driest, druggist, dullest, dumbest, earliest, easiest, ecologist, economist, editorialist, eldest, elitist, embarrassed, empiricist, encompassed, encyclopedist, endocrinologist, entomologist, environmentalist, epidemiologist, ethicist, ethnomusicologist, exorcist, extremist, faintest, fairest, fanciest, farthest, fascist, fastest, fattest, federalist, fetishist, fewest, fiercest, finalist, firmest, fittest, flimsiest, florist, focused, focussed, foggiest, fondest, forest, formalist, freest, freshest, friendliest, fullest, fundamentalist, funniest, furthest, generalist, geneticist, gentlest, geologist, gerontologist, goldest, grandest, gravest, grayest, greatest, greediest, grimaced, grimmest, grooviest, guitarist, gynecologist, happiest, hardest, harshest, harvest, healthiest, heaviest, heftiest, herbalist, highest, hippest, hobbyist, holiest, hottest, hugest, humblest, humorist, individualist, industrialist, institutionalist, instrumentalist, interest, internationalist, jaundiced, journalist, juiciest, junkiest, kindest, kremlinologist, largest, latest, laziest, leftist, librettist, lightest, likeliest, linguist, littlest, liveliest, lobbyist, locust, longest, loudest, lowest, loyalist, luckiest, lyricist, manicurist, mannerist, masochist, materialist, medalist, mercantilist, merest, meteorologist, methodist, microbiologist, mightiest, mildest, mineralogist, modest, monopolist, motorcyclist, motorist, musicologist, narrowest, nastiest, nationalist, naturalist, nearest, neatest, neediest, neurologist, neuroscientist, neutralist, newest, noblest, noisiest, nonconformist, noninterest, noticed, novelist, oboist, oddest, oldest, oncologist, ophthalmologist, orthodontist, orthopedist, pacifist, paleontologist, palest, panelist, pathologist, pessimist, pharmacist, philanthropist, photojournalist, physiologist, polemicist, poorest, populist, prefaced, prejudiced, premised, prettiest, priciest, promised, propagandist, proudest, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, psychologist, psychotherapist, purchased, purest, quickest, quietest, quietist, racist, radiologist, rainforest, rainiest, rapist, rarest, reddest, refocused, reforest, remotest, repurchased, reservist, resurfaced, rheumatologist, richest, rightist, riskiest, ritziest, roughest, rudest, saddest, sadist, safest, satirist, savviest, scariest, scientist, secularist, seismologist, semifinalist, separatist, serologist, serviced, severest, sexiest, shakiest, sharpest, shortest, showiest, shrewdest, sickest, silliest, simplest, skimpiest, skinniest, sleekest, slickest, slightest, slimmest, sloppiest, slowest, smallest, smartest, smoggiest, smoothest, socialist, sociologist, softest, soundest, specialist, spiritualist, stablest, staunchest, steepest, stickiest, stiffest, stormiest, strangest, strategist, strictest, strongest, stupidest, supremacist, surest, surfaced, survivalist, sweetest, swiftest, tallest, technologist, televangelist, tempest, terraced, theorist, therapist, thickest, thorniest, tightest, tiniest, toniest, toughest, tourist, toxicologist, traditionalist, trendiest, trickiest, truest, ugliest, ultranationalist, unbiased, unfocused, unkindest, unnoticed, urologist, violist, virologist, vocalist, warmest, weakest, wealthiest, weirdest, wettest, whitest, widest, wildest, wisest, worthiest, yellowest, youngest, zaniest, zoologist. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: stolonic. | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-l-n-o-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: lotions, soliton. | |
-2 letters: cloots, colins, coloni, colons, consol, contos, lotion, nicols, nostoc, solion, stolon, tocsin, tonics, tonsil. | |
-3 letters: cions, clits, clons, cloot, clots, coils, coins, colin, colon, colts, conto, cools, coons, coots, icons, linos, lints, lions, locos, loins, loons, loots, lotic, lotos, nicol, noils, nolos, olios, ontic, scion, scoot, snool, snoot, solon, sonic. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-l-n-o-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: colonists, cotillons, locations, locutions. | |
+2 letters: coalitions, collations, cotillions, elocutions, iconoclast, loincloths, monostelic, octillions, olfactions, oncologist, osculation, solonetzic. | |
+3 letters: allocations, allocutions, bilocations, biocontrols, catholicons, collections, colonialist, colorations, colorpoints, completions, conflations, consolation, consolidate, copulations, cottontails, dislocation, iconoclasts, inoculators, interschool, liposuction, locomotions, mislocation, necrologist, neologistic, oncologists, oscillation, osculations, outscolding, relocations. | |
+4 letters: astronomical, cartoonishly, chlorinators, chronologist, citronellols, coagulations, coalitionist, coevolutions, colligations, collimations, collocations, colonialists, colonisation, commonalties, compilations, conchologist, conciliators, conditionals, conflictions, congelations, consistorial, consolations, consolidated, consolidates, consolidator, consultation, contagiously, contiguously, continuously, contumelious, convolutions, correlations, cosmopolitan, counterfoils, decollations, dicotyledons, disconsolate, dislocations, elocutionist, gynecologist, iconoclastic, iconolatries, inoculations, inosculation, intercoolers, interschools, isotonically, liposuctions, mislocations, monopolistic, necrologists, noncustodial, nonelections, nonsocialist, occultations, oceanologist, oscillations, percolations, postcolonial, postelection, solicitation, solifluction, technologies, technologist, trichlorfons, vacuolations. | |
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