He dates the custom from the colonial days.
Source: tatoeba (46702)
Colonial
//kɵˈlon(ɪ)jəl//
Synonyms for "colonial" (10 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
3 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
45 entriesShowing 16 of 45 words.
derived from
1 entrieshas context
2 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
8 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
74 translations across 41 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- kolonial adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
Arabic
1 entries- اِسْتِعْمَارِيّ adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
Armenian
1 entries- գաղութային adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
Belarusian
2 entries- каланія́льны adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
- колёнія́льны adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
Bulgarian
3 entries- колониа́лен adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
- колониа́лен adj (of or pertaining to a period when a country or territory was a colony)
- колониа́лен adj (US: of or relating to the style of architecture)
Catalan
1 entries- colonial adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 殖民地的 adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
- 殖民的 adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
Czech
1 entries- koloniální adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
Danish
3 entries- kolonial adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
- kolonial adj (of or pertaining to a period when a country or territory was a colony)
- kolonial adj (US: of or relating to the original thirteen colonies of the USA)
Dutch
1 entries- koloniaal adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
Esperanto
2 entries- kolonia adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
- kolonia adj (of or pertaining to a period when a country or territory was a colony)
Finnish
1 entries- siirtomaa adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
French
4 entries- colonial adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
- colonial adj (of or pertaining to a period when a country or territory was a colony)
- colonial adj (US: of or relating to the original thirteen colonies of the USA)
- colonial adj (US: of or relating to the style of architecture)
Galician
2 entries- colonial adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
- colono noun (person from a country that is or was controlled by another)
Georgian
2 entries- კოლონიური adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
- კოლონიური adj (of or pertaining to a period when a country or territory was a colony)
German
2 entries- kolonial adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
- kolonial adj (of or pertaining to a period when a country or territory was a colony)
Greek
2 entries- αποικιακός adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
- αποικιακός adj (of or pertaining to a period when a country or territory was a colony)
Hindi
2 entries- औपनिवेशिक adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
- औपनिवेशिक adj (of or pertaining to a period when a country or territory was a colony)
Ido
4 entries- koloniala adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
- koloniala adj (of or pertaining to a period when a country or territory was a colony)
- koloniala adj (US: of or relating to the style of architecture)
- koloniano noun (person from a country that is or was controlled by another)
Italian
1 entries- coloniale adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
Latin
3 entries- colōnicus adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
- colōniālis adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
- colōniārius adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
Macedonian
1 entries- колонија́лен adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
Malay
3 entries- jajahan adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
- koloni adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
- kolonial adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- kolonial adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
Persian
1 entries- استعماری adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
Polish
1 entries- kolonialny adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
Portuguese
4 entries- colonial adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
- colonial adj (of or pertaining to a period when a country or territory was a colony)
- colonial adj (US: of or relating to the original thirteen colonies of the USA)
- colonial adj (US: of or relating to the style of architecture)
Romanian
1 entries- colonial adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
Russian
3 entries- колониа́льный adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
- колониа́льный adj (of or pertaining to a period when a country or territory was a colony)
- колониа́льный adj (US: of or relating to the style of architecture)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- kȍlonijālan adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
- ко̏лонија̄лан adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
Slovak
1 entries- koloniálny adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
Slovene
1 entries- kolonialen adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
Spanish
1 entries- colonial adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
Swedish
4 entries- kolonial adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
- kolonial adj (of or pertaining to a period when a country or territory was a colony)
- kolonial adj (US: of or relating to the original thirteen colonies of the USA)
- kolonial adj (US: of or relating to the style of architecture)
Tagalog
2 entries- sakupbayanin adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
- sakupin adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
Turkish
1 entries- kolonyal adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
Tuvan
1 entries- колониалдыг adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
Ukrainian
1 entries- колоніа́льний adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
Urdu
1 entries- استعماری adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
Vietnamese
1 entries- thực dân adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
Yakut
1 entries- колониальнай adj (of or pertaining to a colony)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
He wrote the article "Artificial Intelligence in Martian Colonial Life Support Systems."
Source: tatoeba (1469340)
East Indian sexuality has been influenced by recent colonial history. By no means are the levels of libido homogeneous throughout India, of course.
Source: tatoeba (1499844)
There are controversial works referring to the colonial period.
Source: tatoeba (1885172)
Showing 4 of 14 available sentences.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.