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# colonised

«colonised» in Mova's school dictionary: **When a country colonised a land, it took control of it…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb past form of colonise (colonise, colonises, colonised, colonising); adjective (colonised); US spelling colonized

### meaning for a pupil

1) When a country colonised a land, it took control of it and sent its people to live there, often taking the land from the people already living there. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colonised/#m1)

2) (science) When animals or plants colonise a place, they move in and start living and growing there. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colonised/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons it comes with empires: Britain colonised Australia, India and parts of Africa and America, which brought great harm to the Indigenous peoples. In science, plants colonise new land after a volcano or fire. Phrases: colonised by, the colonised peoples.

### examples

- Britain colonised Australia and New Zealand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colonised/#x1)
- The land was colonised by Europeans who took it from the people already living there. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colonised/#x2)
- Many colonised countries became independent later. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colonised/#x3)
- After the fire, grasses quickly colonised the bare ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colonised/#x4)
- Moss colonised the old wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colonised/#x5)
- Bacteria colonised the dish of jelly in our experiment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colonised/#x6)

### note

UK spelling colonised, US colonized. Nouns: colony, colonist, colonisation, colonialism. Colonising was often violent and unfair; history books now tell both sides.

### In the corpora

- [Thailand, with its capital Bangkok, is the only country in South-East Asia never colonised by a European power.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/64-olympiad-which-country-am-i/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «colonised» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colonised/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.