(transitive) To settle (a place) with colonists, and hence make (a place) into a colony.
Used in a Sentence
colonizing
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for colonizing.
Editorial note
Colonizing Mars would advance our technology far enough to give us confidence to research forward into colonizing beyond our solar system.
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Definitions4
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Quick take
(transitive) To settle (a place) with colonists, and hence make (a place) into a colony.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of colonizing gathered in one view.
(transitive) To settle among and establish control over (the indigenous people of an area).
(intransitive) To begin a colony or colonies.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for colonizing.
verb
(transitive) To settle (a place) with colonists, and hence make (a place) into a colony.
verb
(transitive) To settle among and establish control over (the indigenous people of an area).
verb
(intransitive) To begin a colony or colonies.
verb
(transitive, social sciences, by extension) To intrude into and take over (the autonomy, experience, social movement, etc, of a less powerful person or group); to commandeer or appropriate.
Example sentences
Colonizing Mars would advance our technology far enough to give us confidence to research forward into colonizing beyond our solar system.
One way to look at it is, that the possibility of colonizing the solar system is low, maybe impossible.
The long-term survival of our species is going to require colonizing other planets in other solar systems.
Its not like war lords are tearing apart a civil war ridden country, with a history of European powers colonizing it.
That's cars, commercial space vehicles, mass transit and now: colonizing another planet with the 0.1%.
If there's life there and they looked at us, they'd see vikings colonizing northern France and they'd see the Maya civilization collapse.
Compared to colonizing Antarctica, for example, or the bottom of the sea?
Even if the dream of colonizing mars is farfetched beyond fixing all of the problems we currently have on earth, it doesn't mean its not worth striving for.
I think that exploring/colonizing/living in space is the perfect setting for new games on massive servers run with massive video cards.
Actually, there is one very specific scenario in which colonizing Mars is a great idea: if you're in the business of selling space travel to governments.
At the very last some time should be allowed for the bacteria to reach the gut and start colonizing it I think?
There's a shit ton of matters we can convert into living space before we can even think of colonizing life sustaining planets.
Quote examples
If those people are working on "colonizing" Mars they won't be available for saving earth.
When your money supply is pegged to a physical resource, the primary economic activity that is incentivized within that economy is producing more of that resource (ie, digging gold up out of the ground, or invading/"colonizing" countries to get theirs).
Given that our civilization(s) have nearly always behaved that way when colonizing places, why should we assume that aliens are more "enlightened", and will see us as anything better than we've seen "native savages", or (worse) an "infestation"?
Proper noun examples
Colonizing the Moon only makes sense if the water is there.
Colonizing would be far better, but that reeks of american imperialism, oops.
Colonizing the solar system is just more of the same, and if we do it right we'll bring lots of other species along with us.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use colonizing in a sentence?
Colonizing Mars would advance our technology far enough to give us confidence to research forward into colonizing beyond our solar system.
What does colonizing mean?
(transitive) To settle (a place) with colonists, and hence make (a place) into a colony.
What part of speech is colonizing?
colonizing is commonly used as verb.