Definition of colonize in English:

colonize

(British colonise)

verb ˈkɒlənʌɪzˈkɑləˌnaɪz

[with object]

1Send settlers to (a place) and establish political control over it.
使成为殖民地；使殖民地化；开拓殖民地于（一地区）；殖民于
the Greeks colonized Sicily and southern Italy
希腊人在西西里和意大利南部开拓殖民地。
Example sentencesExamples
- Police Chief Berryer's men routinely rounded up vagrants and sent them off to colonize Canada.
- No one is certain whether the pigs roaming the landscape as Europeans began to formally colonize the southeastern region were the descendants of De Soto's walking food supply.
- Other places were also colonized, especially some Caribbean islands, and more of the North American coast.
- ‘The classic age of imperialism effectively ended in 1918 ’, she writes, though the greater part of the world was still colonised.
- Viking settlers tried to colonise it more than 1,500 years ago.
- A fatal mistake was choosing to colonise land at the heart of the Spanish empire.
- A pair of French Canadians founded and helped to colonize this southern French territory.
- Writer Peter Pierce believes that the fear of being lost in hostile desert or bushland has been deeply etched into the Australian psyche ever since Europeans colonised the southern continent.
- I think we should send them to colonize other planets for us.
- There were some other parallels to Scotland - apart from the fact that the place was colonised by Scots, adopted by Scots, and virtually christened by the early settlers as an alternative Scotland.
- He put down rebellions and sent his Athenian armies to colonize other areas of Asia Minor.
- They were representatives of a huge power to the north that was trying to colonise a Mexican province.
- In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, most of the Islamic world was conquered and colonized by the European powers.
- Moreover, this symbolic conquest of the land and the skills learned on the snowshoe tramps made the contemporary political objective of colonizing the North West and creating a transatlantic nation all the more possible.
- During the 16th century Spain and England were colonizing the world and gaining power.
- With the exception of Thailand, all the countries in the region were colonized by a Western country.
- On 13 July 1889 he founded the British South Africa Company, which subsequently administered and colonized the territory named Southern Rhodesia in his honour in 1898.
- Most people seem to take one of two general points of view on the quest that rockets represent: A vocal minority is certain that humanity will colonize space, just as Europeans colonized the New World.
- They don't necessarily need to send in troops - they send in men in suits and they colonise the place financially.
- Indigenous peoples shared their land with the newcomers and eventually it became more than sharing as the settlers colonized the continent and waged an undeclared war against Indigneous peoples.
Synonyms
settle (in), establish a colony in, people, populate, pioneer, open up, found
overrun, occupy, take over, seize, capture, take possession of, annex, subjugate, hegemonize
1. 1.1 Settle among and establish control over (the indigenous people of an area)
  移民并殖民于
  they sought to discredit the peoples they were colonizing
  an organization seeking to protect the rights of the newly colonized
  一个争取保护新开拓殖民地居民权利的组织。
  Example sentencesExamples
  However, an even stronger case can be made that Molly represents the contemporary Irishwoman, colonized subject of the postcolonial Irish male.
  The ‘Others’ were the colonized indigenous people, immigrants, and people of color who were outside the controlled, managed garden.
  Its purpose was to instil the right ‘English values’ in colonised subjects and to project a vision of all that was finest and most admirable in English culture.
  Fundamentalism is a cultural backlash to globalization; the alienated and angry young men of colonized societies and cultures react to the erosion of their identity and security.
  Like many indigenous peoples who have been colonised much much harm has been done.
  The linguistic and cultural ties are there, as is a surprising degree of goodwill on the part of previously colonized populations.
  As is the case with so many colonized Indigenous peoples around the globe, Indigenous people within the borders of Canada have survived repeated attempts to forcibly remove them from the land and absorb them into the larger society.
  History was clear, people hate being colonized and subjected to the experiments of others and we are poor colonizers. In the end, we let them go.
  These discrepancies undermined the authority and identity of the colonizer and cleared a space for the colonized to strategically and subversively engage with these discourses.
  By reconstructing the colonized subjects as warriors rather than as victims, the poem and the play assert the legitimacy of the nationalist struggle.
  They demonstrate psychiatry's significant role in the production of knowledge about colonized populations, and shed new light on the psychological dimensions of diverse colonial societies.
  The tracing of the imagery of flames that destroy the colonizer and torture the colonized employs yet another older technique to address newer questions.
  In the 1940s, most East Indians had only sticks and stones against the English Empire's massive military power which had been colonizing them for years in what must have felt like a permanent state of oppression.
  Such a categorization not only reflects a particular set of political influences but is dependent on the nature of the relationship between the dominant colonizing nation and its subject nation.
  That this pattern is so similar across all colonised indigenous groups is one reason for having a theme issue devoted to their health.
  The Celtic and Anglo-Saxon peoples of the west were in this sense colonized subjects, just as many Slavic groups were in the east and Mediterranean peoples to the south.
  That ambivalence arises, in part, out of the inherent paradox involved in the command ‘Be like us but not too much alike’ given to the colonized subject.
  Various attempts at colonizing America's black population abroad had been attempted, with little success, throughout the nation's history.
  The Bible which has been used as a tool to oppress, subjugate and colonize indigenous people has proved to be even more powerful a weapon than the European's firearms.
  This effect is exacerbated by aspects of India that complicate or contradict the colonial community's blinkered perception-a perception shaped by its segregation from the space of the colonized.
2. 1.2 Appropriate (a place or domain) for one's own use.
  将（场所，产业）据为己用
  a small town in a part of the Hudson Valley fast being colonized by weekenders
  Example sentencesExamples
  Which is another way of saying that corporations have so completely colonised the world - they own it, and our experience of it - that the enemy here seems to be as vast as reality itself.
  As capitalism colonises new territory, that territory should not be abandoned.
  What it illustrates is the propensity of political science to become colonized by economists, for the agents theorized in this way are basically economic actors.
  Artists have worked on a continuum from the mural, with its respect for the architectural form it inhabits and supplements, to graffiti, which commonly appears as a critique of the space it colonises.
  The capitalists who are now colonising the public sector across the globe are the common enemy of workers everywhere.
  She said: ‘The more the BBC colonises that space the harder it will be for the commercial players to compete.’
  In more recent times, it was artists who colonised the village, followed later by the yachting crowd.
  Traditional lines of separation between political camps disappeared, and concepts that before had been strictly colonized by one political camp could be used much more freely by all.
  Ecopower is also driven by the joint interests of capital (to colonize and commodify) and the state (to manage for the sake of the perceived public good).
  I'm a great believer that if the sporting area is completely colonised by the economic system, then people will go and play their own games.
  Public space has been colonised for commercial purposes and the original building has lost its breathtaking simplicity.
  Is it possible that such attacks were motivated by the belief that American corporate behemoths were colonizing web space initially designed for free flows of information, not business retailing?
  In terms of musicals, he has been there for nigh on 20 years, colonising foreign cities with his chorus lines.
  In it she investigates how corporations have colonised our cultural space and exposes the sweatshop economy that props up some popular consumer brands.
  While it is true that many now prefer a bottle of wine at home, the pub chains that have colonised town and city centres are nevertheless enjoying growing profits.
  It is a political party colonized by religious militants.
  Philosophy is very difficult to justify at the moment, mainly because discourses of science have colonised much of the subject over the last two and a half thousand years - and continue to do so.
  They are allowing their discourse to be colonized by a moralism more appropriate to the pulpit than to the soap-box.
  NIMBYs are colonising the city centre and threatening to destroy much that makes their trendy homes trendy.
  The advocates claim that enforcing prohibitions against colonizing public and private space penalizes street vagrants merely for being homeless.
3. 1.3Ecology (of a plant or animal) establish itself in (an area)
  〔生态〕（植物，动物）建群于，定居于；移地发育于
  mussels can colonize even the most inhospitable rock surfaces
  Example sentencesExamples
  It thrived when tundra-like flora and fauna colonised the land as the glaciers retreated but later declined as the climate warmed.
  Ling another name for common heather, ling colonises both lowland and blanket bogs.
  Both grasses often colonize continuous expanses of desert, closing the open spaces that normally separate native desert plants and protect them from fire.
  This season, more than 30,000 birds, belonging to 30 species, have colonised the place.
  In recent decades, it has colonized such far-flung places as Cape Cod, and in 1999 one was captured in New York City's Central Park.

Derivatives

colonizer

noun ˈkɒlənʌɪzəˈkɑləˌnaɪzər

As with any country that's had its share of occupiers and colonizers, the Philippines boasts a diverse cuisine with influences from all over the map.
Example sentencesExamples
- They set the example for other Indigenous communities across Canada to stand up for their rights and freedoms, to exercise true self-determination, not to ask and beg the colonizer for it, and to preserve the dignity and honor of a people.
- But when the colonizers appeared, they created power structures that weren't accountable in the same way.
- In this province, unlike most provinces in Canada, the colonizers for the most part, did not enter into treaties with Indigenous peoples.
- Indian philosophy is examined critically along with its political roles and how it served the interests of the colonizers.

Definition of colonize in US English:

colonize

(British colonise)

verbˈkäləˌnīzˈkɑləˌnaɪz

[with object]

1(of a country or its citizens) send a group of settlers to (a place) and establish political control over it.
使成为殖民地；使殖民地化；开拓殖民地于（一地区）；殖民于
the Greeks colonized Sicily and southern Italy
希腊人在西西里和意大利南部开拓殖民地。
Example sentencesExamples
- They were representatives of a huge power to the north that was trying to colonise a Mexican province.
- Police Chief Berryer's men routinely rounded up vagrants and sent them off to colonize Canada.
- Other places were also colonized, especially some Caribbean islands, and more of the North American coast.
- No one is certain whether the pigs roaming the landscape as Europeans began to formally colonize the southeastern region were the descendants of De Soto's walking food supply.
- Indigenous peoples shared their land with the newcomers and eventually it became more than sharing as the settlers colonized the continent and waged an undeclared war against Indigneous peoples.
- A fatal mistake was choosing to colonise land at the heart of the Spanish empire.
- Viking settlers tried to colonise it more than 1,500 years ago.
- A pair of French Canadians founded and helped to colonize this southern French territory.
- There were some other parallels to Scotland - apart from the fact that the place was colonised by Scots, adopted by Scots, and virtually christened by the early settlers as an alternative Scotland.
- ‘The classic age of imperialism effectively ended in 1918 ’, she writes, though the greater part of the world was still colonised.
- They don't necessarily need to send in troops - they send in men in suits and they colonise the place financially.
- During the 16th century Spain and England were colonizing the world and gaining power.
- He put down rebellions and sent his Athenian armies to colonize other areas of Asia Minor.
- I think we should send them to colonize other planets for us.
- In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, most of the Islamic world was conquered and colonized by the European powers.
- Most people seem to take one of two general points of view on the quest that rockets represent: A vocal minority is certain that humanity will colonize space, just as Europeans colonized the New World.
- Moreover, this symbolic conquest of the land and the skills learned on the snowshoe tramps made the contemporary political objective of colonizing the North West and creating a transatlantic nation all the more possible.
- With the exception of Thailand, all the countries in the region were colonized by a Western country.
- On 13 July 1889 he founded the British South Africa Company, which subsequently administered and colonized the territory named Southern Rhodesia in his honour in 1898.
- Writer Peter Pierce believes that the fear of being lost in hostile desert or bushland has been deeply etched into the Australian psyche ever since Europeans colonised the southern continent.
Synonyms
settle, settle in, establish a colony in, people, populate, pioneer, open up, found
1. 1.1 Come to settle among and establish political control over (the indigenous people of an area)
  移民并殖民于
  they sought to discredit the peoples they were colonizing
  Example sentencesExamples
  Various attempts at colonizing America's black population abroad had been attempted, with little success, throughout the nation's history.
  The tracing of the imagery of flames that destroy the colonizer and torture the colonized employs yet another older technique to address newer questions.
  As is the case with so many colonized Indigenous peoples around the globe, Indigenous people within the borders of Canada have survived repeated attempts to forcibly remove them from the land and absorb them into the larger society.
  They demonstrate psychiatry's significant role in the production of knowledge about colonized populations, and shed new light on the psychological dimensions of diverse colonial societies.
  The Bible which has been used as a tool to oppress, subjugate and colonize indigenous people has proved to be even more powerful a weapon than the European's firearms.
  History was clear, people hate being colonized and subjected to the experiments of others and we are poor colonizers. In the end, we let them go.
  Like many indigenous peoples who have been colonised much much harm has been done.
  Its purpose was to instil the right ‘English values’ in colonised subjects and to project a vision of all that was finest and most admirable in English culture.
  That ambivalence arises, in part, out of the inherent paradox involved in the command ‘Be like us but not too much alike’ given to the colonized subject.
  The ‘Others’ were the colonized indigenous people, immigrants, and people of color who were outside the controlled, managed garden.
  Fundamentalism is a cultural backlash to globalization; the alienated and angry young men of colonized societies and cultures react to the erosion of their identity and security.
  That this pattern is so similar across all colonised indigenous groups is one reason for having a theme issue devoted to their health.
  These discrepancies undermined the authority and identity of the colonizer and cleared a space for the colonized to strategically and subversively engage with these discourses.
  The Celtic and Anglo-Saxon peoples of the west were in this sense colonized subjects, just as many Slavic groups were in the east and Mediterranean peoples to the south.
  This effect is exacerbated by aspects of India that complicate or contradict the colonial community's blinkered perception-a perception shaped by its segregation from the space of the colonized.
  By reconstructing the colonized subjects as warriors rather than as victims, the poem and the play assert the legitimacy of the nationalist struggle.
  In the 1940s, most East Indians had only sticks and stones against the English Empire's massive military power which had been colonizing them for years in what must have felt like a permanent state of oppression.
  The linguistic and cultural ties are there, as is a surprising degree of goodwill on the part of previously colonized populations.
  However, an even stronger case can be made that Molly represents the contemporary Irishwoman, colonized subject of the postcolonial Irish male.
  Such a categorization not only reflects a particular set of political influences but is dependent on the nature of the relationship between the dominant colonizing nation and its subject nation.
2. 1.2 Appropriate (a place or domain) for one's own use.
  将（场所，产业）据为己用
  Example sentencesExamples
  In it she investigates how corporations have colonised our cultural space and exposes the sweatshop economy that props up some popular consumer brands.
  She said: ‘The more the BBC colonises that space the harder it will be for the commercial players to compete.’
  What it illustrates is the propensity of political science to become colonized by economists, for the agents theorized in this way are basically economic actors.
  Is it possible that such attacks were motivated by the belief that American corporate behemoths were colonizing web space initially designed for free flows of information, not business retailing?
  The capitalists who are now colonising the public sector across the globe are the common enemy of workers everywhere.
  Public space has been colonised for commercial purposes and the original building has lost its breathtaking simplicity.
  In more recent times, it was artists who colonised the village, followed later by the yachting crowd.
  Artists have worked on a continuum from the mural, with its respect for the architectural form it inhabits and supplements, to graffiti, which commonly appears as a critique of the space it colonises.
  While it is true that many now prefer a bottle of wine at home, the pub chains that have colonised town and city centres are nevertheless enjoying growing profits.
  As capitalism colonises new territory, that territory should not be abandoned.
  Ecopower is also driven by the joint interests of capital (to colonize and commodify) and the state (to manage for the sake of the perceived public good).
  The advocates claim that enforcing prohibitions against colonizing public and private space penalizes street vagrants merely for being homeless.
  They are allowing their discourse to be colonized by a moralism more appropriate to the pulpit than to the soap-box.
  In terms of musicals, he has been there for nigh on 20 years, colonising foreign cities with his chorus lines.
  Philosophy is very difficult to justify at the moment, mainly because discourses of science have colonised much of the subject over the last two and a half thousand years - and continue to do so.
  Which is another way of saying that corporations have so completely colonised the world - they own it, and our experience of it - that the enemy here seems to be as vast as reality itself.
  NIMBYs are colonising the city centre and threatening to destroy much that makes their trendy homes trendy.
  I'm a great believer that if the sporting area is completely colonised by the economic system, then people will go and play their own games.
  It is a political party colonized by religious militants.
  Traditional lines of separation between political camps disappeared, and concepts that before had been strictly colonized by one political camp could be used much more freely by all.
3. 1.3Ecology (of a plant or animal) establish itself in (an area)
  〔生态〕（植物，动物）建群于，定居于；移地发育于
  mussels can colonize even the most inhospitable rock surfaces
  no object insect borers colonize in rotted shoreline deadfalls
  Example sentencesExamples
  It thrived when tundra-like flora and fauna colonised the land as the glaciers retreated but later declined as the climate warmed.
  Ling another name for common heather, ling colonises both lowland and blanket bogs.
  This season, more than 30,000 birds, belonging to 30 species, have colonised the place.
  In recent decades, it has colonized such far-flung places as Cape Cod, and in 1999 one was captured in New York City's Central Park.
  Both grasses often colonize continuous expanses of desert, closing the open spaces that normally separate native desert plants and protect them from fire.

单词	colonize
释义	Definition of colonize in English: colonize (British colonise) verb ˈkɒlənʌɪzˈkɑləˌnaɪz [with object] 1Send settlers to (a place) and establish political control over it. 使成为殖民地；使殖民地化；开拓殖民地于（一地区）；殖民于 the Greeks colonized Sicily and southern Italy 希腊人在西西里和意大利南部开拓殖民地。 Example sentencesExamples Police Chief Berryer's men routinely rounded up vagrants and sent them off to colonize Canada. No one is certain whether the pigs roaming the landscape as Europeans began to formally colonize the southeastern region were the descendants of De Soto's walking food supply. Other places were also colonized, especially some Caribbean islands, and more of the North American coast. ‘The classic age of imperialism effectively ended in 1918 ’, she writes, though the greater part of the world was still colonised. Viking settlers tried to colonise it more than 1,500 years ago. A fatal mistake was choosing to colonise land at the heart of the Spanish empire. A pair of French Canadians founded and helped to colonize this southern French territory. Writer Peter Pierce believes that the fear of being lost in hostile desert or bushland has been deeply etched into the Australian psyche ever since Europeans colonised the southern continent. I think we should send them to colonize other planets for us. There were some other parallels to Scotland - apart from the fact that the place was colonised by Scots, adopted by Scots, and virtually christened by the early settlers as an alternative Scotland. He put down rebellions and sent his Athenian armies to colonize other areas of Asia Minor. They were representatives of a huge power to the north that was trying to colonise a Mexican province. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, most of the Islamic world was conquered and colonized by the European powers. Moreover, this symbolic conquest of the land and the skills learned on the snowshoe tramps made the contemporary political objective of colonizing the North West and creating a transatlantic nation all the more possible. During the 16th century Spain and England were colonizing the world and gaining power. With the exception of Thailand, all the countries in the region were colonized by a Western country. On 13 July 1889 he founded the British South Africa Company, which subsequently administered and colonized the territory named Southern Rhodesia in his honour in 1898. Most people seem to take one of two general points of view on the quest that rockets represent: A vocal minority is certain that humanity will colonize space, just as Europeans colonized the New World. They don't necessarily need to send in troops - they send in men in suits and they colonise the place financially. Indigenous peoples shared their land with the newcomers and eventually it became more than sharing as the settlers colonized the continent and waged an undeclared war against Indigneous peoples. Synonyms settle (in), establish a colony in, people, populate, pioneer, open up, found overrun, occupy, take over, seize, capture, take possession of, annex, subjugate, hegemonize 1.1 Settle among and establish control over (the indigenous people of an area) 移民并殖民于 they sought to discredit the peoples they were colonizing an organization seeking to protect the rights of the newly colonized 一个争取保护新开拓殖民地居民权利的组织。 Example sentencesExamples However, an even stronger case can be made that Molly represents the contemporary Irishwoman, colonized subject of the postcolonial Irish male. The ‘Others’ were the colonized indigenous people, immigrants, and people of color who were outside the controlled, managed garden. Its purpose was to instil the right ‘English values’ in colonised subjects and to project a vision of all that was finest and most admirable in English culture. Fundamentalism is a cultural backlash to globalization; the alienated and angry young men of colonized societies and cultures react to the erosion of their identity and security. Like many indigenous peoples who have been colonised much much harm has been done. The linguistic and cultural ties are there, as is a surprising degree of goodwill on the part of previously colonized populations. As is the case with so many colonized Indigenous peoples around the globe, Indigenous people within the borders of Canada have survived repeated attempts to forcibly remove them from the land and absorb them into the larger society. History was clear, people hate being colonized and subjected to the experiments of others and we are poor colonizers. In the end, we let them go. These discrepancies undermined the authority and identity of the colonizer and cleared a space for the colonized to strategically and subversively engage with these discourses. By reconstructing the colonized subjects as warriors rather than as victims, the poem and the play assert the legitimacy of the nationalist struggle. They demonstrate psychiatry's significant role in the production of knowledge about colonized populations, and shed new light on the psychological dimensions of diverse colonial societies. The tracing of the imagery of flames that destroy the colonizer and torture the colonized employs yet another older technique to address newer questions. In the 1940s, most East Indians had only sticks and stones against the English Empire's massive military power which had been colonizing them for years in what must have felt like a permanent state of oppression. Such a categorization not only reflects a particular set of political influences but is dependent on the nature of the relationship between the dominant colonizing nation and its subject nation. That this pattern is so similar across all colonised indigenous groups is one reason for having a theme issue devoted to their health. The Celtic and Anglo-Saxon peoples of the west were in this sense colonized subjects, just as many Slavic groups were in the east and Mediterranean peoples to the south. That ambivalence arises, in part, out of the inherent paradox involved in the command ‘Be like us but not too much alike’ given to the colonized subject. Various attempts at colonizing America's black population abroad had been attempted, with little success, throughout the nation's history. The Bible which has been used as a tool to oppress, subjugate and colonize indigenous people has proved to be even more powerful a weapon than the European's firearms. This effect is exacerbated by aspects of India that complicate or contradict the colonial community's blinkered perception-a perception shaped by its segregation from the space of the colonized. 1.2 Appropriate (a place or domain) for one's own use. 将（场所，产业）据为己用 a small town in a part of the Hudson Valley fast being colonized by weekenders Example sentencesExamples Which is another way of saying that corporations have so completely colonised the world - they own it, and our experience of it - that the enemy here seems to be as vast as reality itself. As capitalism colonises new territory, that territory should not be abandoned. What it illustrates is the propensity of political science to become colonized by economists, for the agents theorized in this way are basically economic actors. Artists have worked on a continuum from the mural, with its respect for the architectural form it inhabits and supplements, to graffiti, which commonly appears as a critique of the space it colonises. The capitalists who are now colonising the public sector across the globe are the common enemy of workers everywhere. She said: ‘The more the BBC colonises that space the harder it will be for the commercial players to compete.’ In more recent times, it was artists who colonised the village, followed later by the yachting crowd. Traditional lines of separation between political camps disappeared, and concepts that before had been strictly colonized by one political camp could be used much more freely by all. Ecopower is also driven by the joint interests of capital (to colonize and commodify) and the state (to manage for the sake of the perceived public good). I'm a great believer that if the sporting area is completely colonised by the economic system, then people will go and play their own games. Public space has been colonised for commercial purposes and the original building has lost its breathtaking simplicity. Is it possible that such attacks were motivated by the belief that American corporate behemoths were colonizing web space initially designed for free flows of information, not business retailing? In terms of musicals, he has been there for nigh on 20 years, colonising foreign cities with his chorus lines. In it she investigates how corporations have colonised our cultural space and exposes the sweatshop economy that props up some popular consumer brands. While it is true that many now prefer a bottle of wine at home, the pub chains that have colonised town and city centres are nevertheless enjoying growing profits. It is a political party colonized by religious militants. Philosophy is very difficult to justify at the moment, mainly because discourses of science have colonised much of the subject over the last two and a half thousand years - and continue to do so. They are allowing their discourse to be colonized by a moralism more appropriate to the pulpit than to the soap-box. NIMBYs are colonising the city centre and threatening to destroy much that makes their trendy homes trendy. The advocates claim that enforcing prohibitions against colonizing public and private space penalizes street vagrants merely for being homeless. 1.3Ecology (of a plant or animal) establish itself in (an area) 〔生态〕（植物，动物）建群于，定居于；移地发育于 mussels can colonize even the most inhospitable rock surfaces Example sentencesExamples It thrived when tundra-like flora and fauna colonised the land as the glaciers retreated but later declined as the climate warmed. Ling another name for common heather, ling colonises both lowland and blanket bogs. Both grasses often colonize continuous expanses of desert, closing the open spaces that normally separate native desert plants and protect them from fire. This season, more than 30,000 birds, belonging to 30 species, have colonised the place. In recent decades, it has colonized such far-flung places as Cape Cod, and in 1999 one was captured in New York City's Central Park. Derivatives colonizer noun ˈkɒlənʌɪzəˈkɑləˌnaɪzər As with any country that's had its share of occupiers and colonizers, the Philippines boasts a diverse cuisine with influences from all over the map. Example sentencesExamples They set the example for other Indigenous communities across Canada to stand up for their rights and freedoms, to exercise true self-determination, not to ask and beg the colonizer for it, and to preserve the dignity and honor of a people. But when the colonizers appeared, they created power structures that weren't accountable in the same way. In this province, unlike most provinces in Canada, the colonizers for the most part, did not enter into treaties with Indigenous peoples. Indian philosophy is examined critically along with its political roles and how it served the interests of the colonizers. Definition of colonize in US English: colonize (British colonise) verbˈkäləˌnīzˈkɑləˌnaɪz [with object] 1(of a country or its citizens) send a group of settlers to (a place) and establish political control over it. 使成为殖民地；使殖民地化；开拓殖民地于（一地区）；殖民于 the Greeks colonized Sicily and southern Italy 希腊人在西西里和意大利南部开拓殖民地。 Example sentencesExamples They were representatives of a huge power to the north that was trying to colonise a Mexican province. Police Chief Berryer's men routinely rounded up vagrants and sent them off to colonize Canada. Other places were also colonized, especially some Caribbean islands, and more of the North American coast. No one is certain whether the pigs roaming the landscape as Europeans began to formally colonize the southeastern region were the descendants of De Soto's walking food supply. Indigenous peoples shared their land with the newcomers and eventually it became more than sharing as the settlers colonized the continent and waged an undeclared war against Indigneous peoples. A fatal mistake was choosing to colonise land at the heart of the Spanish empire. Viking settlers tried to colonise it more than 1,500 years ago. A pair of French Canadians founded and helped to colonize this southern French territory. There were some other parallels to Scotland - apart from the fact that the place was colonised by Scots, adopted by Scots, and virtually christened by the early settlers as an alternative Scotland. ‘The classic age of imperialism effectively ended in 1918 ’, she writes, though the greater part of the world was still colonised. They don't necessarily need to send in troops - they send in men in suits and they colonise the place financially. During the 16th century Spain and England were colonizing the world and gaining power. He put down rebellions and sent his Athenian armies to colonize other areas of Asia Minor. I think we should send them to colonize other planets for us. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, most of the Islamic world was conquered and colonized by the European powers. Most people seem to take one of two general points of view on the quest that rockets represent: A vocal minority is certain that humanity will colonize space, just as Europeans colonized the New World. Moreover, this symbolic conquest of the land and the skills learned on the snowshoe tramps made the contemporary political objective of colonizing the North West and creating a transatlantic nation all the more possible. With the exception of Thailand, all the countries in the region were colonized by a Western country. On 13 July 1889 he founded the British South Africa Company, which subsequently administered and colonized the territory named Southern Rhodesia in his honour in 1898. Writer Peter Pierce believes that the fear of being lost in hostile desert or bushland has been deeply etched into the Australian psyche ever since Europeans colonised the southern continent. Synonyms settle, settle in, establish a colony in, people, populate, pioneer, open up, found 1.1 Come to settle among and establish political control over (the indigenous people of an area) 移民并殖民于 they sought to discredit the peoples they were colonizing Example sentencesExamples Various attempts at colonizing America's black population abroad had been attempted, with little success, throughout the nation's history. The tracing of the imagery of flames that destroy the colonizer and torture the colonized employs yet another older technique to address newer questions. As is the case with so many colonized Indigenous peoples around the globe, Indigenous people within the borders of Canada have survived repeated attempts to forcibly remove them from the land and absorb them into the larger society. They demonstrate psychiatry's significant role in the production of knowledge about colonized populations, and shed new light on the psychological dimensions of diverse colonial societies. The Bible which has been used as a tool to oppress, subjugate and colonize indigenous people has proved to be even more powerful a weapon than the European's firearms. History was clear, people hate being colonized and subjected to the experiments of others and we are poor colonizers. In the end, we let them go. Like many indigenous peoples who have been colonised much much harm has been done. Its purpose was to instil the right ‘English values’ in colonised subjects and to project a vision of all that was finest and most admirable in English culture. That ambivalence arises, in part, out of the inherent paradox involved in the command ‘Be like us but not too much alike’ given to the colonized subject. The ‘Others’ were the colonized indigenous people, immigrants, and people of color who were outside the controlled, managed garden. Fundamentalism is a cultural backlash to globalization; the alienated and angry young men of colonized societies and cultures react to the erosion of their identity and security. That this pattern is so similar across all colonised indigenous groups is one reason for having a theme issue devoted to their health. These discrepancies undermined the authority and identity of the colonizer and cleared a space for the colonized to strategically and subversively engage with these discourses. The Celtic and Anglo-Saxon peoples of the west were in this sense colonized subjects, just as many Slavic groups were in the east and Mediterranean peoples to the south. This effect is exacerbated by aspects of India that complicate or contradict the colonial community's blinkered perception-a perception shaped by its segregation from the space of the colonized. By reconstructing the colonized subjects as warriors rather than as victims, the poem and the play assert the legitimacy of the nationalist struggle. In the 1940s, most East Indians had only sticks and stones against the English Empire's massive military power which had been colonizing them for years in what must have felt like a permanent state of oppression. The linguistic and cultural ties are there, as is a surprising degree of goodwill on the part of previously colonized populations. However, an even stronger case can be made that Molly represents the contemporary Irishwoman, colonized subject of the postcolonial Irish male. Such a categorization not only reflects a particular set of political influences but is dependent on the nature of the relationship between the dominant colonizing nation and its subject nation. 1.2 Appropriate (a place or domain) for one's own use. 将（场所，产业）据为己用 Example sentencesExamples In it she investigates how corporations have colonised our cultural space and exposes the sweatshop economy that props up some popular consumer brands. She said: ‘The more the BBC colonises that space the harder it will be for the commercial players to compete.’ What it illustrates is the propensity of political science to become colonized by economists, for the agents theorized in this way are basically economic actors. Is it possible that such attacks were motivated by the belief that American corporate behemoths were colonizing web space initially designed for free flows of information, not business retailing? The capitalists who are now colonising the public sector across the globe are the common enemy of workers everywhere. Public space has been colonised for commercial purposes and the original building has lost its breathtaking simplicity. In more recent times, it was artists who colonised the village, followed later by the yachting crowd. Artists have worked on a continuum from the mural, with its respect for the architectural form it inhabits and supplements, to graffiti, which commonly appears as a critique of the space it colonises. While it is true that many now prefer a bottle of wine at home, the pub chains that have colonised town and city centres are nevertheless enjoying growing profits. As capitalism colonises new territory, that territory should not be abandoned. Ecopower is also driven by the joint interests of capital (to colonize and commodify) and the state (to manage for the sake of the perceived public good). The advocates claim that enforcing prohibitions against colonizing public and private space penalizes street vagrants merely for being homeless. They are allowing their discourse to be colonized by a moralism more appropriate to the pulpit than to the soap-box. In terms of musicals, he has been there for nigh on 20 years, colonising foreign cities with his chorus lines. Philosophy is very difficult to justify at the moment, mainly because discourses of science have colonised much of the subject over the last two and a half thousand years - and continue to do so. Which is another way of saying that corporations have so completely colonised the world - they own it, and our experience of it - that the enemy here seems to be as vast as reality itself. NIMBYs are colonising the city centre and threatening to destroy much that makes their trendy homes trendy. I'm a great believer that if the sporting area is completely colonised by the economic system, then people will go and play their own games. It is a political party colonized by religious militants. Traditional lines of separation between political camps disappeared, and concepts that before had been strictly colonized by one political camp could be used much more freely by all. 1.3Ecology (of a plant or animal) establish itself in (an area) 〔生态〕（植物，动物）建群于，定居于；移地发育于 mussels can colonize even the most inhospitable rock surfaces no object insect borers colonize in rotted shoreline deadfalls Example sentencesExamples It thrived when tundra-like flora and fauna colonised the land as the glaciers retreated but later declined as the climate warmed. Ling another name for common heather, ling colonises both lowland and blanket bogs. This season, more than 30,000 birds, belonging to 30 species, have colonised the place. In recent decades, it has colonized such far-flung places as Cape Cod, and in 1999 one was captured in New York City's Central Park. Both grasses often colonize continuous expanses of desert, closing the open spaces that normally separate native desert plants and protect them from fire.
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