colonise

Other forms of colonise

past tense

colonised·

present participle

colonising·

third person

colonises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about colonise

What does colonise mean?

colonise means "settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in colonise?

colonise has 3 syllables and divides as co-lo-nise under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for colonise?

Close synonyms include colonize, colonize. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of colonise?

The recorded antonyms are decolonise.

Is colonise a common word?

colonise is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.