colonisation
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English
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Noun
colonisation (countable and uncountable, plural colonisations) (British spelling)
- 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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Noun
colonisation f (plural colonisations)
- 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.
Further reading
- “colonisation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.