colonial
Pre-independence period style
Colonial relates to colonies—territories under the political control of a distant nation.
Colonial architecture, colonial rule, colonial history.
The word often carries critical weight, implying exploitation or cultural imposition: a colonial mindset.
In American usage, colonial describes the period before independence or its distinctive style: colonial furniture, a colonial-era farmhouse.
A colonial is a person living in a colony, especially a settler from the ruling nation.
Domain under unified control
- territoriesAreas under jurisdiction
- conquestDefeating and seizing control
- annexationAbsorbing territory into jurisdiction
- subjugationForcing into submission
domination · expansion · settler · indigenous · native · motherland · protectorate · dependency
Act of removing
- plunderGoods seized violently
- slaveryOwnership of people
- enslavementForced human ownership
- indenturedContracted to serve
plantation · dispossession · looting · oppression · monoculture · forced labor · rubber · ivory
State's chief executive
- administrationOrganizational oversight and control
- viceroyRoyal colonial governor
- charterFounding organizational document
- councilAdvisory deliberative group
ordinance · jurisdiction · bureaucracy · magistrate · commissioner · resident · outpost · garrison
Roofed open-air porch
- porticoColumned covered entryway
- balustradeRail supported by posts
- plantation houseGrand home on farmland
- shuttersHinged window coverings
columns · pediment · gable · dormer · cupola · facade · balcony · courtyard
Defiance of established power
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- revoltOrganized resistance to power
- independenceFreedom from external control
- liberationRelease from constraint
insurgency · guerrilla · boycott · noncooperation · defiance · struggle · nationalist · freedom fighter
Modern indirect domination
- bordersLines separating regions
- lingua francaShared tongue between peoples
- hybridThing of mixed parentage
- creoleNativized pidgin tongue
diaspora · partition · trauma · reckoning · repatriation · restitution · museum · monuments
empire
Domain under unified control
- territoriesAreas under jurisdiction
- conquestDefeating and seizing control
- annexationAbsorbing territory into jurisdiction
subjugation · domination · expansion · settler · indigenous · native · motherland · protectorate · dependency · sphere of influence
extraction
Act of removing
- plunderGoods seized violently
- slaveryOwnership of people
- enslavementForced human ownership
indentured · plantation · dispossession · looting · oppression · monoculture · forced labor · rubber · ivory · spices
governor
State's chief executive
- administrationOrganizational oversight and control
- viceroyRoyal colonial governor
- charterFounding organizational document
council · ordinance · jurisdiction · bureaucracy · magistrate · commissioner · resident · outpost · garrison · customs
veranda
Roofed open-air porch
- porticoColumned covered entryway
- balustradeRail supported by posts
- plantation houseGrand home on farmland
shutters · columns · pediment · gable · dormer · cupola · facade · balcony · courtyard · whitewash
rebellion
Defiance of established power
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- revoltOrganized resistance to power
- independenceFreedom from external control
liberation · insurgency · guerrilla · boycott · noncooperation · defiance · struggle · nationalist · freedom fighter · self-determination
neocolonial
Modern indirect domination
- bordersLines separating regions
- lingua francaShared tongue between peoples
- hybridThing of mixed parentage
creole · diaspora · partition · trauma · reckoning · repatriation · restitution · museum · monuments · renaming
- American housesranch, bungalow, Cape Cod, farmhouse, Victorian
- decor stylesmodern, contemporary, traditional, rustic, bohemian
- home stylescraftsman, ranch, Victorian, Tudor, bungalow
- suburban homessuburban home, tract home, tract housing, single-family home, single-family
- suburbssuburb, subdivision, bedroom community, commuter town, suburban sprawl
- architectural stylesArt Nouveau, Baroque, Bauhaus, brutalist, Byzantine
colonialindependent
Free from external control
sovereign · autonomous · self-governing · anticolonial · decolonial
colonialpostcolonial
After foreign rule ends
modern · contemporary · new · post-independence · precolonial
colonialsolitary
Existing alone, apart
lone · independent · nonsocial · reclusive · unsociable
- French coloniesLands under Parisian rule
- English coloniesCrown territories in America
- ant coloniesOrganized insect communities underground
- colonial war
- colonial powersNations that colonized others
- colonial ruleForeign power's territorial dominion
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