colonized Meaning, Definition & Usage
- 
       verb settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world
       
       
colonize; colonise.
- Europeans colonized Africa in the 17th century
 
 - 
       verb settle as colonists or establish a colony (in)
       
       
colonize; colonise.
- The British colonized the East Coast
 
 - 
       adjective satellite inhabited by colonists
       
       
colonised; settled.