colonization

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EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• (mostly British) colonisation

NounEdit

colonization (countable and uncountable, plural colonizations)

1. The process of establishing a colony.
2. (social sciences) The process of colonizing or taking over.

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from colonization

• anticolonization
• Cocacolonization
• cocolonization
• colonizationism
• colonizationist

• decolonization
• hypercolonization
• monocolonization
• recolonization

Related termsEdit

• colonialism

TranslationsEdit

process of establishing a colony

• Arabic: اِسْتِعْمَار‎‎ m (istiʿmār)
• Armenian: գաղութացում (hy) (gałutʿacʿum)
• Belarusian: каланіза́цыя f (kalanizácyja)
• Bulgarian: колониза́ция f (kolonizácija)
• Catalan: colonització f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 殖民地化 (zh) (zhímíndìhuà)

• Czech: kolonizace f
• Dutch: kolonisatie (nl) f
• Esperanto: koloniigo
• Estonian: koloniseerimine
• Finnish: kolonisaatio (fi)
• French: colonisation (fr) f
• Georgian: კოლონიზაცია (ḳolonizacia)
• German: Kolonisation (de) f, Kolonialisierung f, Besiedlung f
• Greek: αποικισμός (el) m (apoikismós)
• Hungarian: gyarmatosítás (hu)
• Japanese: 植民地化 (しょくみんちか, shokuminchika)
• Korean: 식민지화 (singminjihwa)

• Latvian: kolonizācija f
• Lithuanian: kolonizacija f
• Macedonian: колонизација f (kolonizacija)
• Maori: whakakoronitanga, whakataiwhenuatanga
• Polish: kolonizacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: colonização (pt) f
• Russian: колониза́ция (ru) f (kolonizácija), заселе́ние (ru) n (zaselénije) (settlement)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: колонизација f

  Roman: kolonizacija (sh) f

• Slovak: kolonizácia f
• Slovene: kolonizacija (sl) f
• Spanish: colonización f
• Swedish: kolonisation (sv) c, kolonisering c
• Turkish: koloni (tr), müstemleke (tr), sömürge (tr)
• Ukrainian: колоніза́ція (uk) f (kolonizácija)
• Vietnamese: sự chiếm làm thuộc địa (making into a colony), sự di dân (vi) (settlement)