colonial

Universal Words adjective, noun adjective 1 connected with or belonging to a country that controls another country: a colonial power * Tunisia achieved independence from French colonial rule in 1956. * Western colonial attitudes seealsoCOLONY 2 (often Colonial) typical or connected with the US at the time when it was still a British COLONY: life in colonial times * the Colonial government of Vermont noun a person who lives in a COLONY and who comes from the country that controls it: British colonials in India