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colonial empires

colonial empires is the plural of colonial empire.

Meaning of colonial empire

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.

Questions about colonial empires

What is colonial empires the plural of?
Colonial empires is the plural of colonial empire.

Words near colonial empires in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colonial empires (page history and authors); colonial empire (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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