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
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