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say it: KAH-luh-nahyz
colonize is a verb meaning "settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world". It carries 2 recorded senses.
settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world
“Europeans colonized Africa in the 17th century”
settle as colonists or establish a colony (in)
“The British colonized the East Coast”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for colonize come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.