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colonial

Best crossword clue

"Related to colonies"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /kəˈləʊ.ni.əl/Part of speech adjective, nounSorted acillnooStarts with CEnds with L1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony

Word origin

From colony + -al.

Used in a sentence

  • India’s half-hour zone dates back to colonial rule of India and the era when ever-faster steamships and trains were shrinking the world.
  • None of them are, so to speak, idle men. Many of them are emigrants, not of the soil born and bred colonials.
  • The rest of us had tea and finger sandwiches with members of the royal household, which was very elegant but hard on some of us ill-schooled colonials.

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