Thesaurus results for COLONIZER

colonizer

noun

ˈkä-lə-ˌnī-zər

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as in settler

a person who settles in a new region the first colonizers of Easter Island must have faced untold challenges

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Recent Examples of colonizer Following the Revolution, as the United States expanded and more European settlers arrived, their homelands in New York and Massachusetts were taken over by colonizers. —

Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 11 Mar. 2026 Start by visiting Elmina Castle, the oldest European building in sub-Saharan Africa, founded by Portuguese colonizers in 1482. —

Melanie Van Zyl, Travel + Leisure, 6 Mar. 2026 The colonizer’s poetry has no bones next to the lyric of ours. —

Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026 The book is set in late-19th-century Malacca (also spelled Melaka), a city in Malaysia, and mentions landmarks left over from two previous European colonizers before the British arrived. —

J. D. Biersdorfer, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for colonizer

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Much of this influence played a role in what would become the dialect of the South more generally as Scots Irish settlers and their descendants spread into the backcountry of the Upper and, a bit later, the Lowland South.

— Valerie Fridland, Big Think, 21 Apr. 2026
The removal came after the Indian Removal Act was passed and signed by President Andrew Jackson in 1830, as gold was discovered on Cherokee land and white settlers jockeyed for more acreage.

— Catherine Garcia, TheWeek, 21 Apr. 2026