different between colonial vs graptolite

English

Etymology

From colony +? -al

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k??l??.ni.?l/

Adjective

colonial (comparative more colonial, superlative most colonial)

1. Of or pertaining to a colony.
2. Of or pertaining to a period when a country or territory was a colony.
3. (US) Of or relating to the original Thirteen Colonies of the USA.
4. (US) Of or relating to the style of architecture prevalent at about the time of the Revolution.
5. Tending to form colonies (especially of cells). Synonym for colony-forming.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

colonial (plural colonials)

1. A person from a country that is or was controlled by another.
2. (US) A house that is built in a style reminiscent of the period of the colonization of New England.

Translations

Related terms

• colonization

Catalan

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

colonial (masculine and feminine plural colonials)

1. colonial

Derived terms

• colonialisme
• colonialista

Related terms

• colònia

Further reading

• “colonial” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “colonial” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “colonial” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “colonial” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.l?.njal/

Adjective

colonial (feminine singular coloniale, masculine plural coloniaux, feminine plural coloniales)

1. colonial

Noun

colonial m (plural coloniaux, feminine coloniale)

1. a colonial, a resident of a colony
2. a soldier dispatched to a colony

Further reading

• “colonial” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Etymology

From colónia (“colony”) +? -al.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ko.?lo.ni.?aw/, /?ko.lo.?njaw/

Adjective

colonial m or f (plural coloniais, comparable)

1. (geopolitics) colonial (relating to colonies: regions ruled by another country)

2. (geopolitics) colonial; colonialistic (relating to colonialism)

   Synonym: colonialista

3. (chiefly art) colonial (relating to the period when a country was a colony)

4. (Brazil) relating to the culture of rural immigrant settlements

Derived terms

• colonialismo
• colonialista

Related terms

• colônia
• coloniano
• colono

Romanian

Etymology

From French colonial

Adjective

colonial m or n (feminine singular colonial?, masculine plural coloniali, feminine and neuter plural coloniale)

1. colonial

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

colonia +? -al

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kolo?njal/, [ko.lo?njal]

Adjective

colonial (plural coloniales)

1. colonial

Derived terms

• anticolonial
• colonialismo
• colonialista

Further reading

• “colonial” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (graptós, “painted, marked with letters”) +? -lite.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???apt?l??t/

Noun

graptolite (plural graptolites)

1. Any of a group of extinct aquatic colonial invertebrates, of the class Graptolithina, from the Cambrian and Carboniferous periods.
   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 70:

     The samples were black shale, and on the shales were some ancient fossils called graptolites.

See also

• sicula
• prosicula
• rhabdosome