Associations to the word «Colonize»

Wiktionary

COLONIZE, verb. (American spelling) Alternative spelling of colonise

Dictionary definition

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

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne