Usually means: Control by one country over another.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word colonial:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. colonial: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. colonial: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. colonial: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. colonial: Collins English Dictionary
  5. colonial: Vocabulary.com
  6. Colonial, colonial: Wordnik
  7. colonial: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. colonial: Wiktionary
  9. colonial: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. colonial: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. colonial: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Colonial, colonial: Dictionary.com
  13. colonial: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Colonial (Amtrak train), Colonial (PRR train), Colonial: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Colonial: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. colonial: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. colonial: Rhymezone
  18. Colonial: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. colonial: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. colonial: Free Dictionary
  21. colonial: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. colonial: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. colonial: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. colonial: Encyclopedia

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. On-Line Biology Book: GLOSSARY (No longer online)
  3. colonial: Natural History Terms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Colonial (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. colonial: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. Colonial, the colonial: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See colonialize as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of or pertaining to a colony.
adjective:  Of or pertaining to a period when a country or territory was a colony.
adjective:  Of or pertaining to the ideals of colonialism.
adjective:  (US) Of or relating to the original Thirteen Colonies of the USA.
adjective:  (US) Of or relating to the style of architecture prevalent at about the time of the Revolution.
adjective:  Tending to form colonies (especially of cells). Synonym for colony-forming.
noun:  A person from a country that is or was controlled by another.
noun:  (US) A house that is built in a style reminiscent of the period of the colonization of New England.

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