colonialist
pronunciation
How to pronounce colonialist in British English:
UK [kə'ləʊnɪəlɪst]
How to pronounce colonialist in American English:
US [kə'loʊnɪrlɪst]
-
- Noun:
- a believer in colonialism
Word Origin
- colonialist (n.)
- 1813, from colonial + -ist; compare colonist.
Example
- 1. China is not a conventional aid donor , but nor is it a colonialist interested only in looting the land .
- 2. Miners easily come to be seen as colonialist thieves .
- 3. The colonialist authorities failed to remedy the grievances from which these disorders sprang .
- 4. When western colonialist powers expanded eastwards , they found a declined ming dynasty and a rising qing dynasty .
- 5. It 's a very 19th-century colonialist view , which was a time when people were trying to figure out why english or french were better than swahili or eskimo .