colonise
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world
Europeans colonized Africa in the 17th century
Types & categories
- annex hypernym
Related & opposite
- decolonize antonym
- colonization derivation
- settlement derivation
- colonizer derivation
Sense 2 verb
settle as colonists or establish a colony (in)
The British colonized the East Coast
Types & categories
- settle hypernym
Related & opposite
- colonization derivation
- settlement derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | decolonize |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | colonization |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | settlement |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | colonizer |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | annex |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | colonization |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | settlement |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | settle |