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coloniser

coloniser is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of colonizer.

Meaning of colonizer

Noun

colonizer (plural colonizers)

  1. One who makes a group or place into a colony; one who establishes a colonial relationship.
    Synonyms:
    colonist
  2. One who establishes a colony; one who joins a colony or is born and raised there.
    Synonyms:
    colonist
  3. One who intrudes and takes over.
  4. A species that establishes itself in a new area.
  5. (derogatory, neologism) A white person.
    • Don't scare me like that, colonizer!2018 January 29, Ryan Coogler, Joe Robert Cole, Black Panther, spoken by Shuri (Letitia Wright)

Forms of coloniser

pluralcolonisers

Origin of coloniser

From colonise + -er.

Questions about coloniser

What is coloniser the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Coloniser is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of colonizer.

Words near coloniser in the dictionary

  1. colonisations
  2. colonise
  3. colonised
  4. colonisee
  5. colonisees
  6. coloniser
  7. colonisers
  8. colonises
  9. colonising
  10. colonist
  11. colonists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coloniser (page history and authors); colonizer (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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