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# coloniser

«coloniser» in Mova's school dictionary: **A country or person that takes control of another land…** — 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

noun (a coloniser, colonisers); US spelling colonizer

### meaning for a pupil

A country or person that takes control of another land, settles there and rules the people who already live there. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coloniser/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons it is used when studying empires, for example British, French, Spanish and Portuguese colonisers in Africa, Asia, Australia and the Americas, and how this affected the Indigenous peoples. It is often used to show the side of the people who were colonised. Phrases: "European colonisers", "colonisers and colonised".

### examples

- The colonisers took land from the Aboriginal people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coloniser/#x1)
- Spanish colonisers came to South America in the 1500s. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coloniser/#x2)
- Many colonisers forced local people to work for them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coloniser/#x3)
- The museum shows the story from the point of view of the colonised, not just the colonisers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coloniser/#x4)
- Some colonisers built railways, but mainly to take away goods. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coloniser/#x5)
- Ireland had English colonisers in the plantation times. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coloniser/#x6)

### note

British spelling: coloniser; American: colonizer. From "colony" and "colonise". History is complicated, and historians use evidence from both colonisers and colonised peoples.

### In the corpora

- [European colonisers forced Indigenous people to mine silver in Peru and Bolivia, and enslaved Africans to dig gold in Brazil.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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