Overview of verb colonize

The verb colonize has 2 senses

• colonize, colonise -- (settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world; "Europeans colonized Africa in the 17th century")


• colonize, colonise -- (settle as colonists or establish a colony (in); "The British colonized the East Coast")

Overview of adj colonized

The adj colonized has 1 sense

• colonized, colonised, settled -- (inhabited by colonists)