Colonise
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
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Verb
- 1 Non-Oxford British standard spelling of colonize.
"“I sovereign, Lidia Thorpe, do solemnly and sincerely swear that I will be faithful and I bear true allegiance to the colonising her majesty Queen Elizabeth II,” she said."
- 2 settle as colonists or establish a colony (in) wordnet
- 3 settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world wordnet
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More examples"“I sovereign, Lidia Thorpe, do solemnly and sincerely swear that I will be faithful and I bear true allegiance to the colonising her majesty Queen Elizabeth II,” she said."