Synonyms for colonist

Most common

settler · colonizer

All synonyms

Noun

Definitions

1. n. 1

   A founder of a colony.

Related words

Is a kind of

colonialist

Forms

Plural

colonists → settlers, colonizers…

Example sentences

• settler Tom is a settler living on stolen Massachusett land.
• colonizer "Modern Hebrew is a colonizer language," they said in English.

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

7 letters

settler³

9 letters

colonizer⁴, coloniser

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (settler³ = 3 syllables).