(transitive) To settle (a place) with colonists, and hence make (a place) into a colony. / (transitive) To settle (a group of people, a species, or the like) in a place as a colony.

One who makes a group or place into a colony; one who establishes a colonial relationship. / One who establishes or joins a colony; a colonist. / One who intrudes and takes over.

plural of colonizer

simple past tense and past participle of colonize

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of colonize

The punctuation mark ":". / (rare) The triangular colon (especially in context of not being able to type the actual triangular colon).

(anatomy) Part of the large intestine; the final segment of the digestive system, after (distal to) the ileum and before (proximal to) the rectum. (Because the colon is the largest part of the large intestine (constituting most of it), it is often treated as synonymous therewith in broad or casual usage.)

(obsolete) A husbandman. / A European colonial settler, especially in a French colony.

The process of establishing a colony. / (social sciences) The process of colonizing or taking over.

Of, relating to, affecting or within the colon.