colonial
colonial Lexical Profile
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• adjective
Relating to, characteristic of, or inhabiting a colony or colonies.
"The historian studied the economic policies of the colonial administration in the nineteenth century."
American Relating to the thirteen British colonies that became the original United States of America, or to their historical period and architectural styles.
"The museum features an extensive collection of colonial furniture and pewter tableware from New England."
Relating to organisms that live together in closely connected or interdependent colonies (in biology and ecology).
"Reef-building corals are colonial invertebrates composed of thousands of genetically identical polyps."
• noun
A native or inhabitant of a colony.
"Many colonials served alongside regular troops during the Eighteenth-Century frontier conflicts."
American A house built in a traditional symmetrical architectural style characteristic of the early American colonial period or its later revivals.
"The family purchased a brick colonial on a tree-lined street in the historic district."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Formed in the late 18th century from 'colony' plus the suffix '-al', ultimately tracing back to Latin 'colonia' (a settled land or farm) and 'colonus' (a farmer or settler), from the verb 'colere' meaning to cultivate or inhabit.