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Definition of Colonial
Colonial

Of or pertaining to a colony; as, colonial rights, traffic, wars.

Related Definitions:
As, Colonial, Colony, Of, Or, Pertaining, To, Traffic


Colonial Quotations

These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out.
Emily G. Balch

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
Abdul Kalam

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.
Nelson Mandela

Most correspondents came from the former colonial powers - there were British, French, and a lot of Italians, because there were a lot of Italian communities there. And of course there were a lot of Russians.
Ryszard Kapuscinski

Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa.
Paul Robeson

Colonial Translations

colonial in Dutch is koloniaal
colonial in French is colonial
colonial in German is kolonial
colonial in Hungarian is gyarmati, gyarmatos
colonial in Spanish is colonial


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