Meanings
plural colonisers
- UKnonstandardNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of colonizer.
Finally, the colonisers were attempting genocide, they wanted us all dead. If I identified with my wadjela ancestry at the expense of my Aboriginality, the colonisers win.
2021 November 7, Claire [G.] Coleman, “Not quite blak enough: ‘The people who think I am too white to be Aboriginal are all white’”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2021
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Cite this entry
coloniser. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coloniser
“coloniser.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coloniser. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “coloniser,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coloniser.
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