Hypertext Webster Gateway: "colonization"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Colonization \Col`o*ni*za"tion\, n. [Cf. F. colonisation.]
The act of colonizing, or the state of being colonized; the
formation of a colony or colonies.
The wide continent of America invited colonization.
--Bancroft.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
colonization
n : the act of colonizing [syn: {colonisation}, {settlement}]
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