Associations to the word «Colonise»

Wiktionary

COLONISE, verb. (British spelling) (transitive) To settle (somewhere) with colonists.
COLONISE, verb. (transitive) To settle (a species, group of people, or the like) in a new place as a colony.
COLONISE, verb. (intransitive) To begin a new colony.

Dictionary definition

COLONISE, verb. Settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world; "Europeans colonized Africa in the 17th century".
COLONISE, verb. Settle as colonists or establish a colony (in); "The British colonized the East Coast".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats