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colonised

colonised is the simple past and past participle of colonise.

Meaning of colonise

Verb

colonise (third-person singular simple present colonises, present participle colonising, simple past and past participle colonised)

  1. Non-Oxford British standard spelling of colonize.
    • “I sovereign, Lidia Thorpe, do solemnly and sincerely swear that I will be faithful and I bear true allegiance to the colonising her majesty Queen Elizabeth II,” she said.2022 August 1, Josh Butler, quoting Lidia Thorpe, “Australian senator calls the Queen a coloniser while being sworn in to parliament”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Forms of colonised

alternative formcolonized

Questions about colonised

What is colonised the simple past and past participle of?
Colonised is the simple past and past participle of colonise.

Words near colonised in the dictionary

  1. colonisation
  2. colonisational
  3. colonisationist
  4. colonisations
  5. colonise
  6. colonised
  7. colonisee
  8. colonisees
  9. coloniser
  10. colonisers
  11. colonises

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colonised (page history and authors); colonise (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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