Word Meanings - COLONIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a colony; as, colonial rights, traffic, wars.

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• TRAFFICLESS
  Destitute of traffic, or trade.
• TRAFFIC MILE
  Any unit of the total obtained by adding the passenger miles and ton miles in a railroad's transportation for a given period; -- a term and practice of restricted or erroneous usage. Traffic mile is a term designed to furnish an excuse
• COLONIAL
  Of or pertaining to a colony; as, colonial rights, traffic, wars.
• COLONY
  A number of animals or plants living or growing together, beyond their usual range. (more info) 1. A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent
• TRAFFICABLE
  Capable of being disposed of in traffic; marketable. Bp. Hall.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• TRAFFIC
  trafagar, Pg. traficar, trafegar, trafeguear, LL. traficare; of uncertain origin, perhaps fr. L. trans across, over + -ficare to make (see -fy, and cf. G. übermachen to transmit, send over, e. g., money, wares); or cf. Pg. trasfegar to pour out
• TRAFFICKER
  One who traffics, or carries on commerce; a trader; a merchant.
• COLONIALISM
  1. The state or quality of, or the relationship involved in, being colonial. The last tie of colonialism which bound us to the mother country is broken. Brander Matthews. 2. A custom, idea, feature of government, or the like, characteristic of
• CROWN COLONY
  A colony of the British Empire not having an elective magistracy or a parliament, but governed by a chief magistrate appointed by the Crown, with executive councilors nominated by him and not elected by the people.
• BRIGHTSOME
  Bright; clear; luminous; brilliant. Marlowe.
• INTERTRAFFIC
  Mutual trade of traffic.
• INTERCOLONIAL
  Between or among colonies; pertaining to the intercourse or mutual relations of colonies; as, intercolonial trade. -- In`ter*co*lo"ni*al*ly, adv.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach