# colonial
## English
### Etymology

From colony +‎ -al.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /kəˈləʊ.ni.əl/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -əʊniəl

### Adjective

colonial (comparative more colonial, superlative most colonial)
* Of or pertaining to a colony.
* Of or pertaining to a period when a country or territory was a colony.
** 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
* Of or pertaining to the ideals of colonialism.
* (US) Of or relating to the original Thirteen Colonies of the USA.
* (US) Of or relating to the style of architecture prevalent at about the time of the Revolution.
* Tending to form colonies (especially of cells). Synonym for colony-forming.

#### Derived terms

* allocolonial
* anticolonial
* autocolonial
* biocolonial
* colonial bent
* colonial blue
* colonial empire
* colonial goose
* colonialise
* colonialism
* colonialist
* colonialistic
* colonialistically
* coloniality
* colonialization
* colonialize
* colonial lag
* colonially
* colonialness
* colonial power
* colonial salmon
* concolonial
* countercolonial
* cybercolonial
* decolonial
* Eurocolonial
* French colonial empire
* heterocolonial
* homocolonial
* intercolonial
* intracolonial
* microcolonial
* multicolonial
* neocolonial
* noncolonial
* paracolonial
* postcolonial
* precolonial
* pseudocolonial
* retro-colonial
* semicolonial
* subcolonial
* supercolonial
* transcolonial
* uncolonial
* unicolonial

#### Translations
### Noun

colonial (plural colonials)
* A person from a country that is or was controlled by another.
** 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 192:None of them are, so to speak, idle men. Many of them are emigrants, not of the soil born and bred colonials.
** 2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 150:The rest of us had tea and finger sandwiches with members of the royal household, which was very elegant but hard on some of us ill-schooled colonials.
* (US) A house that is built in a style reminiscent of the period of the colonization of New England.

#### Translations

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### Related terms

* colonization

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -al

### Adjective

colonial m or f (masculine and feminine plural colonials)
* colonial

#### Derived terms

* colonialisme
* colonialista

#### Related terms

* colònia

### Further reading

* “colonial” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “colonial”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “colonial” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “colonial” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɔ.lɔ.njal/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

colonial (feminine coloniale, masculine plural coloniaux, feminine plural coloniales)
* colonial

#### Derived terms

* puissance coloniale

#### Descendants

* → German: kolonial
* → Romanian: colonial
* → Turkish: kolonial, kolonyal

### Noun

colonial m (plural coloniaux, feminine coloniale)
* a colonial, a resident of a colony
* a soldier dispatched to a colony

### Further reading

* “colonial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From colónia / colônia (“colony”) +‎ -al (“of or relating to”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ko.lo.niˈaw/ [ko.lo.nɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /ko.loˈnjaw/ [ko.loˈnjaʊ̯]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ku.luˈnjal/ [ku.luˈnjaɫ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ku.luˈnjal/ [ku.luˈnjaɫ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ku.luˈnja.li/
* Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
* Hyphenation: co‧lo‧ni‧al

### Adjective

colonial m or f (plural coloniais)
* (geopolitics) colonial (relating to colonies: regions ruled by another country)
    Governo colonial.Colonial government.
* (geopolitics) colonial; colonialistic (relating to colonialism)
    Synonym: colonialista
    Expansão colonial.Colonial expansion.
* (chiefly art) colonial (relating to the period when a country was a colony)
    Arquitetura colonial.Colonial architecture.
* (Brazil) relating to the culture of rural immigrant settlements
    Queijo colonial.[Type of cheese made by German immigrants].

#### Derived terms

* colonialismo
* colonialista

#### Related terms

* coloniano
* colono

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French colonial. Equivalent to colonie +‎ -al.

### Adjective

colonial m or n (feminine singular colonială, masculine plural coloniali, feminine and neuter plural coloniale)
* colonial

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

From colonia +‎ -al.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /koloˈnjal/ [ko.loˈnjal]
* Rhymes: -al
* Syllabification: co‧lo‧nial

### Adjective

colonial m or f (masculine and feminine plural coloniales)
* colonial

#### Derived terms

* anticolonial
* colonialismo
* colonialista
* colonialmente

### Further reading

* “colonial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10