COLONIZER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does colonizer mean? 

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

1. someone who helps to found a colony

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLONIZER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who helps to found a colony

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

coloniser; colonizer

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

beginner; father; founder; founding father (a person who founds or establishes some institution)

Instance hyponyms:

Ralegh; Raleigh; Sir Walter Ralegh; Sir Walter Raleigh; Walter Ralegh; Walter Raleigh (English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia; introduced potatoes and tobacco to England (1552-1618))

Cecil J. Rhodes; Cecil John Rhodes; Cecil Rhodes; Rhodes (British colonial financier and statesman in South Africa; made a fortune in gold and diamond mining; helped colonize the territory now known as Zimbabwe; he endowed annual fellowships for British Commonwealth and United States students to study at Oxford University (1853-1902))

Derivation:

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

 Context examples 

L. lactis is not a normal colonizer of humans and may be an opportunistic pathogenic.

(Leuconostoc lactis, NCI Thesaurus)