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colonisation en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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- /kɔlənɪˈzɛjʃən/ (British, Southern, Standard)
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Meanings
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(alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable) Alternative spelling of colonization.
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.
1952 November, “The Western Australian Government Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 760:
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Deriveds
monocolonisation · decolonisation · recolonisation