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colonial empire

colonial empire noun: a collective of territories that are either contiguous with the imperial center or located overseas, and settled by the population of a certain state and governed by that state.

Noun

colonial empire (plural colonial empires)

  1. (historical) A collective of territories that are either contiguous with the imperial center or located overseas, and settled by the population of a certain state and governed by that state.

Forms of colonial empire

pluralcolonial empires

Questions about colonial empire

What does colonial empire mean?
Colonial empire means a collective of territories that are either contiguous with the imperial center or located overseas, and settled by the population of a certain state and governed by that state.
What part of speech is colonial empire?
Colonial empire is a noun.
What is the plural of colonial empire?
The plural of colonial empire is colonial empires.

Words near colonial empire in the dictionary

  1. Colonia LeBaron
  2. colonial
  3. colonial bent
  4. colonial blue
  5. colonial blues
  6. colonial empire
  7. colonial empires
  8. colonial goose
  9. colonial lag
  10. Colonial Revival
  11. Colonial Revivals

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