Word Meanings - COLONIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A member or inhabitant of a colony.
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- 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 - INHABITANT
One who has a legal settlement in a town, city, or parish; a permanent resident. (more info) 1. One who dwells or resides permanently in a place, as distinguished from a transient lodger or visitor; as, an inhabitant of a house, a town, a city, - MEMBERSHIP
1. The state of being a member. 2. The collective body of members, as of a society. - MEMBERED
Having legs of a different tincture from that of the body; -- said of a bird in heraldic representations. (more info) 1. Having limbs; -- chiefly used in composition. - MEMBER
To remember; to cause to remember; to mention. - MISREMEMBER
To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly. Sir T. More. - REMEMBER
re- + memorare to bring to remembrance, from memor mindful. See 1. To have come into the mind again, as previously perceived, known, or felt; to have a renewed apprehension of; to bring to mind again; to think of again; to recollect; - NONMEMBERSHIP
State of not being a member. - REMEMBERABLE
Capable or worthy of being remembered. -- Re*mem"ber*a*bly, adv. The whole vale of Keswick is so rememberable. Coleridge. - FOREREMEMBERED
Called to mind previously. Bp. Montagu. - DISMEMBER
1. To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up. Fowls obscene dismembered his remains. Pope. A society lacerated and dismembered. Gladstone. By whose hands the blow should be struck - NONINHABITANT
One who is not an inhabitant; a stranger; a foreigner; a nonresident. - 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. - DISREMEMBER
To fail to remember; to forget. - CAMEMBERT; CAMEMBERT CHEESE
A kind of soft, unpressed cream cheese made in the vicinity of Camembert, near Argentan, France; also, any cheese of the same type, wherever made. - UNMEMBER
To deprive of membership, as in a church. - DISMEMBERMENT
The act of dismembering, or the state of being dismembered; cutting in piece; m The Castilians would doubtless have resented the dismemberment of the unwieldy body of which they formed the head. Macaulay. - REMEMBERER
One who remembers. - NONMEMBER
One who is not a member. - COINHABITANT
One who dwells with another, or with others. "Coinhabitants of the same element." Dr. H. More.