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precolonials

precolonials is the plural of precolonial.

Meaning of precolonial

Noun

precolonial (plural precolonials)

  1. An inhabitant of an area before colonists first arrived.
    • After 1970 one no longer expected to find Tio whose parents had experienced the precolonial period, except for a few very old persons. Most people now were grandchildren of the precolonials.1990, Jan M. Vansina, Paths in the Rainforests

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Questions about precolonials

What is precolonials the plural of?
Precolonials is the plural of precolonial.

Words near precolonials in the dictionary

  1. precollusion
  2. precolonial
  3. precolonialism
  4. precoloniality
  5. precolonially
  6. precolonials
  7. precolonized
  8. precolor
  9. precolored
  10. precoloring
  11. precolors

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Adapted from Wiktionary: precolonials (page history and authors); precolonial (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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