A colonist is a
settler
A settler or a colonist is a person who establishes or joins a permanent presence that is separate to existing communities. The entity that a settler establishes is a Human settlement, settlement. A settler is called a pioneer if they are among ...
, a person who has migrated to an area and established a permanent residence there, often to colonize that specific area.
Colonist(s) or The Colonist can also refer to:
Publications
*''British Colonist'', also referred to as ''the Colonist'', a defunct newspaper owned by Toronto-based Canadian newspaper editor
Samuel Thompson in the 1850s
* ''The Colonist'', a defunct newspaper co-founded in the 1860s by
William Augustine O'Carroll in Queensland, Australia
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The Colonist'', a defunct newspaper in Guyana
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The Colonist (Australian newspaper)'', a newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, from 1835 to 1840
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The Colonist (New Zealand newspaper)'', a newspaper published in Nelson, New Zealand, from 1857 to 1920
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Times Colonist
The ''Times Colonist'' is an English-language daily newspaper in Victoria, British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada. Situated in the Pacific Northwest between the Pacific ...
'', a Canadian newspaper published in Victoria BC, formerly ''British Colonist'' and others
Other uses
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Colonist (''The X-Files''), a type of extraterrestrial creature that appears in the television series ''The X-Files'' and the feature film ''The X-Files''
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The Colonist, a pub in Norwood, Adelaide, Australia
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''Colonist'' (1861), a British schooner launched in 1861 and sunk in 1890
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Colonist car, a type of railway passenger coach designed to provide inexpensive long-distance transportation for immigrants
*''Colonists'', an EP by
Nero's Day at Disneyland
See also
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Colonial (disambiguation)
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Colonialism
Colonialism is the control of another territory, natural resources and people by a foreign group. Colonizers control the political and tribal power of the colonised territory. While frequently an Imperialism, imperialist project, colonialism c ...
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Colonization
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Colonization (British English: colonisation) is a process of establishing occupation of or control over foreign territories or peoples f ...
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Colony
A colony is a territory subject to a form of foreign rule, which rules the territory and its indigenous peoples separated from the foreign rulers, the colonizer, and their ''metropole'' (or "mother country"). This separated rule was often orga ...
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