colonization

English

Alternative forms

colonisation (British)

Etymology

From colonize +‎ -ation.

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Noun

colonization (countable and uncountable, plural colonizations)

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

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Translations

process of establishing a colony

Afrikaans: kolonisering, kolonisasie
Albanian: kolonizim (sq) m
Arabic: اِسْتِعْمَار m (istiʕmār)
Armenian: գաղութացում (hy) (gaġutʻacʻum)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܫܘܼܥܡܵܪܵܐ m (šuˁmārā)
Asturian: colonización f
Azerbaijani: müstəmləkələşdirmə
Belarusian: каланіза́цыя f (kalanizácyja)
Bengali: উপনিবেশন (upônibeśôn)
Bulgarian: колониза́ция f (kolonizácija)
Catalan: colonització (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 殖民地化 (zh) (zhímíndìhuà)
Czech: kolonizace f
Danish: kolonisering c
Dutch: kolonisatie (nl) f, kolonisering
Esperanto: koloniigo
Estonian: koloniseerimine
Finnish: kolonisaatio (fi)
French: colonisation (fr) f
Galician: colonización (gl) f
Georgian: კოლონიზაცია (ḳolonizacia)
German: Kolonisation (de) f, Kolonisierung (de) f, Kolonialisierung f, Besiedlung (de) f
Greek: αποικισμός (el) m (apoikismós)
Ancient: ἀποικισμός m (apoikismós)
Hindi: उपनिवेशन m (upniveśan)
Hungarian: gyarmatosítás (hu), kolonizáció (hu)
Italian: colonizzazione (it) f
Japanese: 植民地化 (しょくみんちか, shokuminchika)
Kazakh: елдендіру (eldendıru)
Khmer: អាណានិគមកិច្ច (ʼaanaanikumkəc)
Korean: 식민지화(植民地化) (singminjihwa)
Kyrgyz: колонизация (kolonizatsiya)
Latvian: kolonizācija f
Lithuanian: kolonizacija f
Macedonian: колонизација f (kolonizacija)
Maori: whakakoronitanga, whakataiwhenuatanga
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kolonisering m, kolonisasjon m
Occitan: colonizacion (oc) f
Persian: مستعمره‌سازی (mosta'mare-sâzi)
Polish: kolonizacja (pl) f
Portuguese: colonização (pt) f
Romanian: colonizare (ro) f
Russian: колониза́ция (ru) f (kolonizácija), заселе́ние (ru) n (zaselénije) (settlement)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: колониза́ција f

Roman: kolonizácija (sh) f
Slovak: kolonizácia f
Slovene: kolonizacija (sl) f
Spanish: colonización (es) f
Swedish: kolonisation (sv) c, kolonisering (sv) c
Tagalog: kolonisasyon
Thai: การทำให้เป็นอาณานิคม (gaan-tam-hâi-bpen-aa-naa-ní-kom), การตั้งอาณานิคม (gaan-dtâng-aa-naa-ní-kom)
Turkish: koloni (tr), kolonizasyon (tr), müstemleke (tr), sömürge (tr)
Ukrainian: колоніза́ція (uk) f (kolonizácija)
Uzbek: kolonizatsiya
Vietnamese: sự chiếm làm thuộc địa (making into a colony), sự di dân (vi) (settlement)
Yiddish: קאָלאָניזאַציע f (kolonizatsye), קאָלאָניזירונג f (kolonizirung)
Yoruba: imunisin

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