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# colonized

«colonized» in Mova's school dictionary: **to go to a faraway land, settle there and take control of…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (colonize, colonizes, colonized, colonizing)

### meaning for a pupil

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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colonized/#m1)

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

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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