Synonyms of colonizers

colonizers

noun

plural of colonizer

as in settlers

a person who settles in a new region

the first colonizers of Easter Island must have faced untold challenges

Synonyms & Similar Words

• settlers
• pioneers
• colonists
• colonials
• homesteaders
• frontiersmen
• explorers
• pathfinders
• woodsmen
• mountain men
• trailblazers
• bushrangers

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of colonizers

In the British colonial holdings of the West Indies and American colonies, these slave-owning colonizers and plantation administrators were predominantly Protestant. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026

Smallpox began decimating Indigenous populations shortly after European colonizers arrived in the Americas during the late 15th century. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 30 July 2026

Co-founder and tour guide Hannah Michelle Brower says the tour will be a historical journey exploring passenger pigeons and the Lenape people, as well as looking at how the arrival of European colonizers accelerated commercial exploitation and ultimately contributed to the extinction of the bird. — Terra Sullivan, CBS News, 29 June 2026

Dark visions and secrets quickly come to light, as Mārama grapples with her heritage in the shadow of colonizers. — William Earl, Variety, 26 June 2026

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

In the past, thousands of the indigenous Great Andamanese people living in the region died after contact with British colonizers led to an epidemic of measles and syphilis. — Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 7 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