colonials
Subjects of empire
Colonials are people living in or from a colony, particularly settlers from a ruling country who have established themselves in foreign territory.
The term often carries historical weight, evoking European expansion: The colonials built their homes in the style of the mother country.
In American contexts, it frequently refers to the pre-Revolutionary era: colonial architecture, colonial history.
As an adjective, colonial describes anything relating to colonies or colonialism.
Religious journey takers
- mayflowerSpring-blooming ground plant
- charterFounding organizational document
- explorersThose who venture unfamiliar lands
- missionariesReligious workers abroad
traders · mercantilism · governance · frontier · territory · founding · settlement · minutemen
Domain under unified control
- subjugationForcing into submission
- dominationSupreme authority held
- expansionismPolicy of territorial growth
- viceroyRoyal colonial governor
governor-general · protectorate · administration · occupation · exploitation · hegemony · annexation · sovereignty
First to explore territory
- homesteadersLand-claiming rural settlers
- frontiersmenSettlers of unsettled land
- emigrantsPeople leaving their country
- plantersVessels for cultivating vegetation
expatriates · immigrants · newcomers · trailblazers · pioneering · homesteading · landrush · settling
pilgrims
Religious journey takers
- mayflowerSpring-blooming ground plant
- charterFounding organizational document
- explorersThose who venture unfamiliar lands
missionaries · traders · mercantilism · governance · frontier · territory · founding · settlement · minutemen · townspeople
empire
Domain under unified control
- subjugationForcing into submission
- dominationSupreme authority held
- expansionismPolicy of territorial growth
viceroy · governor-general · protectorate · administration · occupation · exploitation · hegemony · annexation · sovereignty · outpost
pioneers
First to explore territory
- homesteadersLand-claiming rural settlers
- frontiersmenSettlers of unsettled land
- emigrantsPeople leaving their country
planters · expatriates · immigrants · newcomers · trailblazers · pioneering · homesteading · landrush · settling · encampment
vintage
Quality from past eras
- heirloomInherited family treasure
- furnitureMovable room objects
- restorationReturning something to condition
patina · Georgian · Chippendale · Windsor · highboy · lowboy · sideboard · armoire · pewter · wainscoting
- suburbssuburb, subdivision, bedroom community, commuter town, suburban sprawl
- colonistscolonists, settler, Pilgrims, Puritans, early settlers
colonialsindigenous peoples
Original inhabitants of lands
natives · aboriginals · First Nations · original inhabitants · native-born
- colonial war
- colonial powersNations that colonized others
- colonial ruleForeign power's territorial dominion
- colonial eraAge of overseas dominion
- colonial styleArchitecture from settlement periods
- colonial rootsOrigins from settler period
colonial, colonialism, colonialist, neocolonialism, colonialists, precolonial, colonially, postcolonial