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colonises

colonises is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

Questions about colonises

What is colonises the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Colonises is the third-person singular simple present indicative of colonise.

Words near colonises in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colonises (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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