Colonist and Native

Colonist

Colonist noun - A person who settles in a new region.
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Synonyms for Colonist

Native is an antonym for colonist.

Native

Native noun - A usually longtime resident of a locality.

Colonist is an antonym for native.

Nearby Words: nativity, natively

How words are described

female female colonist female native
alien alien colonist alien native
young young colonist young native
lone lone colonist lone native
Other adjectives: last, surviving, english, European, Martian.

Both words in one sentence

  • Film / The Battle of Algiers After a few skirmishes with French police, reprisal killings spur ever-worse reprisal killings as the native and colonist populations are radicalized against each other.
  • Going Native In The New World, Pocahontas goes native when she marries a British colonist and visits England.
    Source: Going Native
  • The brave ones drink klah (a beverage made from a type of native tree bark) instead, but one colonist plots to steal a ship and leave, partly because they've run out of coffee.
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Native and Colonist. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 03, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/colonist/native
Colonist & Native. N.p., 2016. Web. 03 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/colonist/native>.
Native or Colonist. 2016. Accessed August 03, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/colonist/native.


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