Definitions for colonialism

colonialism co·lo·ni·al·ism

Spelling: [kuh-loh-nee-uh-liz-uh m]
IPA: /kəˈloʊ ni əˌlɪz əm/

Colonialism is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 629 anagrams from letters in colonialism (aciillmnoos).

Definitions for colonialism

noun

  1. the control or governing influence of a nation over a dependent country, territory, or people.
  2. the system or policy by which a nation maintains or advocates such control or influence.
  3. the state or condition of being colonial.
  4. an idea, custom, or practice peculiar to a colony.

Origin of colonialism

First recorded in 1850-55; colonial + -ism

Examples for colonialism

“Life was much better than now,” Botala says of colonialism.

One hundred years ago, Senegalese natives were put on display in Norway to drum up support for colonialism.

At the turn of the century, zoos displaying so-called primitive cultures were used to drum up public support for colonialism.

These tendencies and opportunities have revived the dying spirit of colonialism.

If it sounds like colonialism and has the same economic effects – it is colonialism.

Canada has not emerged from its colonialism, and has no national aspiration.

Because it has, in the past, been a tool of racism and colonialism, and in the present, is a means of rationing health care.

It is American in feeling, without any taint of English colonialism.

But it is a recurrence of the old and deep-seated malady of colonialism.

What he has said publicly is an apology for colonialism, something we are not guilty of in Cuba.

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