The meaning of Colonist

adjective

Relating to or characteristic of a colony or colonies.

Usage examples:

British colonial rule

noun

A native or inhabitant of a colony.

Usage examples:

A rebellion by dutch-speaking colonials

adjective

Relating to a body of people who settle far from home

noun

A country that sends settlers to a place and establishes political control over it.

Usage examples:

Portugal was a major colonizer in both brazil and parts of africa

noun

A man living in the region of a frontier, especially that between settled and unsettled country.

Usage examples:

The legendary frontiersman is wandering through the prairies of wyoming.

noun

A person who lives on the border between cultivated land (= land used to grow crops) and wild land, especially in the past in the us

Usage examples:

The book portrays him as a heroic frontiersman of the wild west.

noun

An inhabitant.

Usage examples:

The country dwellers and habitants of market towns and traditional villages keep away from the larg…

noun

A person who lives in a particular place

Usage examples:

Last year there were 130 murders for every 100,000 habitants in the city., farmland established by …

noun

Someone who goes to live and grow crops on land given by the government, especially in the past

Usage examples:

In the 1800s, thousands of homesteaders settled on the prairies of the western us.

noun

A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country.

Usage examples:

They found it difficult to expel illegal immigrants

noun

A person who has come into a foreign country in order to live there

Usage examples:

My grandparents arrived here as immigrants from russia in 1910., his family immigrated to the unite…

noun

A person who has come to a country that is not their own in order to live there permanently

Usage examples:

Legal/illegal/undocumented immigrant arizona employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants face s…

noun

A person who has come to live in an area in which they have not grown up, especially in a close-knit rural community.

Usage examples:

An english incomer to orkney

combining form

Denoting a person with a specified level of income.

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Middle-incomer

noun

A person who has recently arrived in a place.

Usage examples:

She's a newcomer to the area

noun

A person who is among the first to explore or settle a new country or area.

Usage examples:

The decision came a month before the start of the winter olympics in utah and can be expected to pu…

verb

Develop or be the first to use or apply (a new method, area of knowledge, or activity).

Usage examples:

The technique was pioneered by a swiss doctor in the 1930s

proper noun

A series of american space probes launched between 1958 and 1973, two of which provided the first clear pictures of jupiter and saturn (1973–9).

noun

A manager or owner of a plantation.

Usage examples:

Wealthy coffee planters

noun

A large container in which esp. decorative plants are grown

Usage examples:

The sidewalk is lined with planters overflowing with flowers.

noun

A person who purchases membership of a society, guild, or company. compare "redemption". in later use historical.

noun

An emigrant to america who paid for the passage by becoming an indentured servant on arrival.

noun

A person who redeems mortgaged property or land.

noun

A person who moves with a group of others to live in a new country or area.

Usage examples:

The early european settlers in america were often fleeing from religious persecution

noun

A person who unlawfully occupies an uninhabited building or unused land.

Usage examples:

The police moved in and evicted the squatters

adjective

Short and thickset; disproportionately broad or wide.

Usage examples:

He was muscular and squat

noun

A person who lives in an empty building or area of land without the permission of the owner