colonization


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col·o·ni·za·tion

 (kŏl′ə-nĭ-zā′shən)
n.
The act or process of establishing a colony or colonies.

col·o·ni·za·tion

(kŏl′ə-nĭ-zā′shən)
Ecology
The spreading of a species into a new habitat.
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.colonization - the act of colonizingcolonization - the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies; "the British colonization of America"
establishment, constitution, formation, organisation, organization - the act of forming or establishing something; "the constitution of a PTA group last year"; "it was the establishment of his reputation"; "he still remembers the organization of the club"
population - the act of populating (causing to live in a place); "he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals"
Translations

colonization

[ˌkɒlənaɪˈzeɪʃən] Ncolonización f

colonization

colonisation [ˌkɒlənaɪˈzeɪʃən] (British) ncolonisation f

colonization

nKolonisation f

colonization

[ˌkɒlənaɪˈzeɪʃn] ncolonizzazione f

colonization

n colonización f
References in classic literature ?
It came shortly before the memorable meeting at the town-hall, and was nothing less than a letter from Will Ladislaw to Lydgate, which turned indeed chiefly on his new interest in plans of colonization, but mentioned incidentally, that he might find it necessary to pay a visit to Middlemarch within the next few weeks--a very pleasant necessity, he said, almost as good as holidays to a schoolboy.
His design was to visit India, in the belief that he had in his knowledge of its various languages, and in the views he had taken of its society, the means of materially assisting the progress of European colonization and trade.
There were a dozen requests for autographs - he knew them at sight; there were professional begging letters; and there were letters from cranks, ranging from the man with a working model of perpetual motion, and the man who demonstrated that the surface of the earth was the inside of a hollow sphere, to the man seeking financial aid to purchase the Peninsula of Lower California for the purpose of communist colonization.