- 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
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- (often Colonial)typical of or connected with the US at the time when it was still a British colony
- life in colonial times
- the Colonial government of Vermont
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