colonization

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: col=o=ni=za=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

colonization, n. [Cf. F. colonisation.].

 The act of colonizing, or the state of being colonized; the formation of a colony or colonies.  [1913 Webster]
"The wide continent of America invited colonization."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

colonization

Hare system, PR, absentee voting, adoption, anchorage, appropriation, arrogation, assumption, ballot-box stuffing, card voting, conquest, cumulative system, cumulative voting, election fraud, empeoplement, enslavement, establishment, fixation, floating, foundation, inauguration, indent, inhabiting, initiation, installation, installment, investiture, list system, lodgment, mooring, occupation, peoplement, peopling, plantation, plural system, population, preemption, preferential system, preferential voting, preoccupation, prepossession, proportional representation, proxy voting, repeating, requisition, settlement, settling, single system, single transferrable vote, single-member district, subjugation, takeover, taking over, usurpation, vote, voting, voting machine

ROGET THESAURUS

colonization

Location

N location, localization, lodgment, deposition, reposition, stowage, package, collocation, packing, lading, establishment, settlement, installation, fixation, insertion, habitat, environment, surroundings (situation), circumjacence, anchorage, mooring, encampment, plantation, colony, settlement, cantonment, colonization, domestication, situation, habitation, cohabitation, a local habitation and a name, endenization, naturalization, placed, situate, posited, ensconced, imbedded, embosomed, rooted, domesticated, vested in, unremoved, moored, at anchor.