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coloniser

/ˈkɒlənaɪzə/noun

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उपनिवेशक, उपनिवेश बसाने वाला व्यक्ति या देश

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noun
  1. 1

    [C]

    a person, group or country that takes control of another land and settles people there

    उपनिवेशक, उपनिवेश बसाने वाला व्यक्ति या देश

    • The colonisers drained India's wealth for two centuries.
    • Historians study how the coloniser and the colonised lived side by side.

    Synonyms settler colonist

    Opposite colonised native

◇Word family
colonise verbcolonisation nouncolony nouncolonial adj.
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Notes

British and American: coloniser is the British spelling; American English writes colonizer.

British and American: coloniser British spelling है; American English में colonizer लिखा जाता है।