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colonials

colonials is the plural of colonial.

Meaning of colonial

Noun

colonial (plural colonials)

  1. A person from a country that is or was controlled by another.
    • None of them are, so to speak, idle men. Many of them are emigrants, not of the soil born and bred colonials.1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 192
  2. (US) A house that is built in a style reminiscent of the period of the colonization of New England.
  3. A coin or postage stamp issued by a colony.
    • This simple soul, who possesses a talent not inferior to that of Cavino at his best, has for many years turned his hand to the not unprofitable occupation of forging rare Greek and Roman coins. As a collector and student of certain Greek colonials and a specialist in forgeries I have been familiar...1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados

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Questions about colonials

What is colonials the plural of?
Colonials is the plural of colonial.

Words near colonials in the dictionary

  1. colonialized
  2. colonializes
  3. colonializing
  4. colonially
  5. colonialness
  6. colonials
  7. coloniarch
  8. coloniarchs
  9. colonic
  10. colonic cocktail
  11. colonic cocktails

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