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colonisation

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colonisation (countable and uncountable, plural colonisations) (British spelling)

  1. Alternative spelling of colonization.
    • 1952 November, “The Western Australian Government Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 760:
      Colonisation began towards the end of 1826, when a British settlement was founded at Albany, on the southern coast, and in the next year the whole territory (then known as New Holland) became a possession of the British Crown.

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French

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Etymology

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From coloniser +‎ -ation.

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Noun

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colonisation f (plural colonisations)

  1. colonization
    • 1925, Nguyễn Ái Quốc, “XI - Le martyre de la femme indigène”, in Le procès de la colonisation française:
      On disait : ‹ La colonisation, c’est un vol. › Nous ajoutons : un viol et un assassinat.
      It was said: ‘Colonization is robbery.’ We add: rape and murder.

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