English words for 'A colonial mentality.'
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adj
- Of or pertaining to the ideals of colonialism.
- Of or pertaining to a period when a country or territory was a colony.
- (US) Of or relating to the original Thirteen Colonies of the USA.
- (biology) Tending to form colonies (especially of cells).
- (US) Of or relating to the style of architecture prevalent at about the time of the Revolution.
- Of or pertaining to a colony.
- of animals who live in colonies, such as ants
- composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony
- of or relating to or characteristic of or inhabiting a colony
noun
noun
- Colonial life.
- A colonial word, phrase, concept, or habit.
- The policy of a country seeking to extend or retain its authority over other people or territories, generally with the aim of economic dominance.
- (by extension, derogatory) Any form of foreign influence seen as undesirable.
- exploitation by a stronger country of weaker one; the use of the weaker country's resources to strengthen and enrich the stronger country
noun
- The policy of perpetuating the culture of the natives of a colonised country.
- (philosophy) The doctrine that some skills or abilities are innate and not learned.
- (countable) A cultural element that is native to a colonised country.
- (linguistics) A theory that some knowledge of grammar is innate.
- (chiefly US) A policy of favoring native-born inhabitants over immigrants.
- (philosophy) the philosophical theory that some ideas are innate
- the policy of perpetuating native cultures (in opposition to acculturation)
noun
- the action of changing from colonial to independent status
- (social sciences) The reverse of colonization, i.e. granting back autonomy to a group.
- (medicine) The elimination of a colony of pathogens from the body of a patient, especially antibiotic-resistant pathogens.
- The freeing of a colony etc from dependent status by granting it independence.
noun
- (postcolonialism) A patronizing Western attitude towards Middle Eastern, Asian, and North African societies.
- (art, architecture, literature) The tendency to represent eastern subjects, to assume stylistical characteristics original of the East.
- An Eastern word, expression, or custom.
- the quality or customs or mannerisms characteristic of Asian civilizations
noun
- the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies
- termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities
- a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it
- a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government
- a community of people smaller than a town
- an area where a group of families live together
- something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making
- (law) A resolution of a dispute.
- The state of being settled.
- (law) A disposition of property, or the act of granting it.
- (law) A mutual agreement to end a dispute without resorting to legal proceedings, also known as an out-of-court settlement or settling out of court.
- The act of settling.
- (law) A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of legal residence.
- (archaeology) A site where people used to live together in ancient times; an ancient simple kind of village.
- (architecture) The gradual sinking of a building. Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
- A community of people living together, such as a hamlet, village, town, or city; a populated place.
- (finance) The delivery of goods by the seller and payment for them by the buyer, under a previously agreed trade or transaction or contract entered into.
- A colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled.
- (India, historical) An estate or district in Anglo-Indian Bengal where, instead of taking a quota of the year's produce, the government took a fixed sum several times a year from the local cultivators.
noun
- (historical) Advocacy of proprietary colonies and proprietary government in colonial America.
- A philosophy and belief that very small businesses are generally more humane than large corporations.
- A belief that property is an absolute right, sometimes to the extreme of considering it to overrule the human rights of others.
noun
- A European colonial settler, especially in a French colony.
- (rare) The triangular colon (especially in context of not being able to type the actual triangular colon).
- The punctuation mark ⟨:⟩.
- (palaeography) A clause or group of clauses written as a line, or taken as a standard of measure in ancient manuscripts or texts.
- (anatomy) Part of the large intestine; the final segment of the digestive system, after (distal to) the ileum and before (proximal to) the rectum. (Because the colon is the largest part of the large intestine (constituting most of it), it is often treated as synonymous therewith in broad or casual usage.)
- (rhetoric) A rhetorical figure consisting of a clause which is grammatically, but not logically, complete.
- the basic unit of money in Costa Rica; equal to 100 centimos
- the part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they are excreted
- a punctuation mark (‘:’) used after a word introducing a series or an example or an explanation (or after the salutation of a business letter)
- the basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100 centavos
noun
- One who makes a group or place into a colony; one who establishes a colonial relationship.
- One who intrudes and takes over.
- (derogatory, neologism) A white person.
- One who establishes a colony; one who joins a colony or is born and raised there.
- (ecology) A species that establishes itself in a new area.
- someone who helps to found a colony
name
noun
- (anatomy) Initialism of gallbladder.
- (crystallography) Initialism of grain boundary.
- (informal, pharmacology) Initialism of goofball (“barbiturate”).
- a highly toxic chemical nerve agent that inhibits the activity of cholinesterase
- a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes
- a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes
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noun
- Colonial life.
- A colonial word, phrase, concept, or habit.
- The policy of a country seeking to extend or retain its authority over other people or territories, generally with the aim of economic dominance.
- (by extension, derogatory) Any form of foreign influence seen as undesirable.
- exploitation by a stronger country of weaker one; the use of the weaker country's resources to strengthen and enrich the stronger country
noun
- The policy of perpetuating the culture of the natives of a colonised country.
- (philosophy) The doctrine that some skills or abilities are innate and not learned.
- (countable) A cultural element that is native to a colonised country.
- (linguistics) A theory that some knowledge of grammar is innate.
- (chiefly US) A policy of favoring native-born inhabitants over immigrants.
- (philosophy) the philosophical theory that some ideas are innate
- the policy of perpetuating native cultures (in opposition to acculturation)
noun
- the action of changing from colonial to independent status
- (social sciences) The reverse of colonization, i.e. granting back autonomy to a group.
- (medicine) The elimination of a colony of pathogens from the body of a patient, especially antibiotic-resistant pathogens.
- The freeing of a colony etc from dependent status by granting it independence.
noun
- (postcolonialism) A patronizing Western attitude towards Middle Eastern, Asian, and North African societies.
- (art, architecture, literature) The tendency to represent eastern subjects, to assume stylistical characteristics original of the East.
- An Eastern word, expression, or custom.
- the quality or customs or mannerisms characteristic of Asian civilizations
noun
- the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies
- termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities
- a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it
- a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government
- a community of people smaller than a town
- an area where a group of families live together
- something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making
- (law) A resolution of a dispute.
- The state of being settled.
- (law) A disposition of property, or the act of granting it.
- (law) A mutual agreement to end a dispute without resorting to legal proceedings, also known as an out-of-court settlement or settling out of court.
- The act of settling.
- (law) A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of legal residence.
- (archaeology) A site where people used to live together in ancient times; an ancient simple kind of village.
- (architecture) The gradual sinking of a building. Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
- A community of people living together, such as a hamlet, village, town, or city; a populated place.
- (finance) The delivery of goods by the seller and payment for them by the buyer, under a previously agreed trade or transaction or contract entered into.
- A colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled.
- (India, historical) An estate or district in Anglo-Indian Bengal where, instead of taking a quota of the year's produce, the government took a fixed sum several times a year from the local cultivators.
noun
- (historical) Advocacy of proprietary colonies and proprietary government in colonial America.
- A philosophy and belief that very small businesses are generally more humane than large corporations.
- A belief that property is an absolute right, sometimes to the extreme of considering it to overrule the human rights of others.
noun
- A European colonial settler, especially in a French colony.
- (rare) The triangular colon (especially in context of not being able to type the actual triangular colon).
- The punctuation mark ⟨:⟩.
- (palaeography) A clause or group of clauses written as a line, or taken as a standard of measure in ancient manuscripts or texts.
- (anatomy) Part of the large intestine; the final segment of the digestive system, after (distal to) the ileum and before (proximal to) the rectum. (Because the colon is the largest part of the large intestine (constituting most of it), it is often treated as synonymous therewith in broad or casual usage.)
- (rhetoric) A rhetorical figure consisting of a clause which is grammatically, but not logically, complete.
- the basic unit of money in Costa Rica; equal to 100 centimos
- the part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they are excreted
- a punctuation mark (‘:’) used after a word introducing a series or an example or an explanation (or after the salutation of a business letter)
- the basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100 centavos
noun
- One who makes a group or place into a colony; one who establishes a colonial relationship.
- One who intrudes and takes over.
- (derogatory, neologism) A white person.
- One who establishes a colony; one who joins a colony or is born and raised there.
- (ecology) A species that establishes itself in a new area.
- someone who helps to found a colony
adj
- Of or pertaining to the ideals of colonialism.
- Of or pertaining to a period when a country or territory was a colony.
- (US) Of or relating to the original Thirteen Colonies of the USA.
- (biology) Tending to form colonies (especially of cells).
- (US) Of or relating to the style of architecture prevalent at about the time of the Revolution.
- Of or pertaining to a colony.
- of animals who live in colonies, such as ants
- composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony
- of or relating to or characteristic of or inhabiting a colony