Thesaurus results for COLONIZERS

colonizers

noun

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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

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Recent Examples of colonizers To early European colonizers, sassafras appeared to be a medical miracle. —

Kari Traylor, JSTOR Daily, 30 Apr. 2026 Angola’s Portuguese colonizers were emboldened by 15th-century directives from the Vatican that authorized them to enslave non-Christians. —

ABC News, 19 Apr. 2026 Crossing Thousands of Miles of Open Ocean Hawaiian leaf-roller moths are among the most successful long-distance colonizers of any native Hawaiian animals, according to the research. —

Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 6 Apr. 2026 According to the research, Hawaiian leaf-roller moths are among the most successful long-distance colonizers of any native Hawaiian animals. —

Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 6 Apr. 2026 The Vikings were raiders, pirates, traders, explorers, and colonizers who traveled far beyond their homeland in Scandinavia between the 9th and 11 centuries. —

Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026 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 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

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There’s nothing inherently antisemitic about protesting over the dispossession of Palestinians, and the attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank by settlers, which appear to be sanctioned by the Israeli government.

— Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 7 May 2026
By then, the salubrious environment that Central Florida’s earliest settlers found had already been transformed many times over.

— Stephen Hudak, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 May 2026