Coloniser

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of colonizer. UK, alt-of, nonstandard

    "Finally, the colonisers were attempting genocide, they wanted us all dead. If I identified with my wadjela ancestry at the expense of my Aboriginality, the colonisers win."

  2. 2
    someone who helps to found a colony wordnet

Synonyms

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colonizercolonizer

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"Finally, the colonisers were attempting genocide, they wanted us all dead. If I identified with my wadjela ancestry at the expense of my Aboriginality, the colonisers win."

Etymology

From colonise + -er.

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