colonialism

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /kəˈləʊ.njə.lɪ.zəm/|/kəˈləʊ.ni.ə.lɪ.zəm/    美 /kəˈloʊ.njə.lɪ.zəm/|/kəˈloʊ.ni.ə.lɪ.zəm/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The seizure of geographical area to extract its natural resources or exploit the labor of the indigenous peoples to remotely benefit a distant country. countable,uncountable
    — Though most of the cases here cover European encounters with non-Europeans, it is not the intention of the book to give the impression that genocide is a function of European colonialism and imperialism alone.
  2. The subjugation of a weaker country, population, or people by a dominant country, population, or people. colloquial,countable,derogatory,often,uncountable
    — It was the racist, settler colonialism that created whiteness, that created blackness, half-caste, quarter-caste, octoroon, that saw mixed-race people as a third race.
  3. Any form of foreign influence seen as undesirable. broadly,countable,derogatory,uncountable
  4. A colonial word, phrase, concept, or habit. countable,uncountable
    — Although the settlement seems so far to have made but slow progress, there are many things which show that, to use a colonialism, "the place was going ahead."
  5. Colonial life. countable,uncountable

词形变化

colonialisms plural

词汇关系

衍生词
anticolonialism biocolonialism biocolonialist Coca-Colonialism cybercolonialism Eurocolonialism green colonialism internal colonialism neocolonialism paracolonialism postcolonialism pseudocolonialism semicolonialism settler colonialism

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁-e-ti
Proto-Italic *kʷelō
Latin colō
Latin colōnus
Latin colōniader.
Middle English colane
English colony
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
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Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
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Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English colonial
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English colonialism
From colonial + -ism.
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