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
Caribbean musicians blended colonizer’s instruments and music styles with their traditional sound.
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Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2025
Their biting wit turned upon whiteness and the colonizer has served as much inspiration.
—Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
The final season will explore Shaka’s enemies trying to undermine his rule and the arrival of Francis Fynn and British colonizers.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2025
From migrants and colonizers to gossip and war, Emily Wilson examines The Aeneid and its relevance to the modern world.
—tumblr.com, 11 Oct. 2025
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Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2025
Their biting wit turned upon whiteness and the colonizer has served as much inspiration.
—Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
The final season will explore Shaka’s enemies trying to undermine his rule and the arrival of Francis Fynn and British colonizers.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2025
From migrants and colonizers to gossip and war, Emily Wilson examines The Aeneid and its relevance to the modern world.
—tumblr.com, 11 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for colonizer
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White South Africans, whose roots can be traced to settlers arriving under Dutch and British colonial rule, dominated the country through a system of racial segregation known as apartheid from 1948 until its abolishment in the early 1990s.—
Tom O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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Finally, the South, where European settlers made their mark, highlights Santa Catarina and the surf beaches of Florianópolis.—
Jade Moyano,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Nov. 2025
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By offering a solution to the throngs of independent resale stores that followed in the footsteps of buy-and-sell pioneers like Round Two, OS Group has been able to carve a lucrative niche in an otherwise crowded space.—
Riley Jones,
Footwear News,
4 Nov. 2025
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The first release is uniquely crafted by esteemed whiskey pioneer Chip Tate.—
Gege Reed,
Louisville Courier Journal,
4 Nov. 2025
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Britain’s loyalist supporters, for instance, tried repeatedly to weaponize their fellow colonists’ reflexive fear of foreigners, spreading ugly rumors that French Catholic soldiers had orders to persecute American Protestants, claim their lands for King Louis, and ban the speaking of English.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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The Beaver Moon takes its name from early Native American tribes as well as American colonists, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac, when beavers begin sheltering in their lodges after gathering enough food to last the winter.—
Marina Johnson,
Louisville Courier Journal,
4 Nov. 2025
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An extraordinary colonial spider community in Sulfur Cave (Albania/Greece) sustained by chemoautotrophy.—
Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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In less than a decade, Cabral united more than a million Guineans in the struggle against Portuguese colonial rule, liberating three-quarters of the countryside of Guinea-Bissau and inspiring other African nations to rebel and claim their independence.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Colonizer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colonizer. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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