[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/colonized/)

[dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [C](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/c/) / colonized

# colonized

verb (colonize, colonizes, colonized, colonizing)

«colonized» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

To colonize a place is to go to a faraway land, settle there and take control of it, often with people from another country. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colonized/#m1)

### In the lessons

in history lessons and tales, settlers from one country colonized a new land and lived there for many years.

### Examples

- Greek settlers colonized the land by the sea. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colonized/#x1)
- Long ago, many people colonized new islands. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colonized/#x2)
- The settlers colonized the valley and built farms there. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colonized/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «colonized» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colonized/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«colonized» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/colonized.html) on Mova free.