COLONISATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does colonisation mean? 

• COLONISATION (noun)
  The noun COLONISATION has 1 sense:

1. the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies

  Familiarity information: COLONISATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLONISATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

colonisation; colonization; settlement

Context example:

the British colonization of America

Hypernyms ("colonisation" is a kind of...):

constitution; establishment; formation; organisation; organization (the act of forming or establishing something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "colonisation"):

population (the act of populating (causing to live in a place))

Derivation:

colonise (settle as colonists or establish a colony (in))

colonise (settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world)