colonialist
nounEtymology From colonial + -ist.
1
One who supports or advocates colonialism.
- [Marc Jacobs] is a colonialist, an extender of brands, and in very good shape.2010 November 10, John Caramanica, “Monopoly by Marc Jacobs”, in The New York Times:
- So far, the daily dose of quinine had been bitter and very unpalatable. […] To make the medicine go down more easily, colonialists occasionally mixed the powder with sugar, water and gin.2014, Olivia Williams, “Gin is the Tonic”, in Gin Glorious Gin: How Mother’s Ruin Became the Spirit of London, London: Headline Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 163:
- Derived terms
- anticolonialist, anti-colonialist, de-colonialist, decolonialist, neo-colonialist, neocolonialist, noncolonialist, non-colonialist, palaeo-colonialist, palaeocolonialist, paleocolonialist, paleo-colonialist, post-colonialist, postcolonialist, pre-colonialist, precolonialist, procolonialist, pro-colonialist
- Related terms
- colonial, colonialism, colonially, colonisation, colonise, colonization, colonize, colony