Synonyms of colonizer

colonizer

noun

ˈkä-lə-ˌnī-zər 

as in settler

a person who settles in a new region

the first colonizers of Easter Island must have faced untold challenges

Synonyms & Similar Words

• settler
• pioneer
• colonist
• colonial
• frontiersman
• homesteader
• explorer
• pathfinder
• woodsman
• mountain man
• trailblazer
• bushranger

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of colonizer

European colonizers in lands that became the United States did link church and state. — Peter C. Mancall, The Conversation, 24 June 2026

Later, colonizers cut down the trees to plant pineapple and sugarcane; the land dried out and became vulnerable to fire. — Julie Orringer, Travel + Leisure, 9 June 2026

Norway was itself a colonizer, and programs oppressing indigenous cultures and languages were in place well into the 1960s. — Ola Morris Innset, The Dial, 2 June 2026

The language first reached the continent in the early twentieth century and gained popularity during the postcolonial era as a politically neutral replacement for the still-persistent languages of European colonizers. — Katie Thornton, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026