colonial

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

co·lo·nial [colonial colonials] adjective, noun BrE [kəˈləʊniəl] NAmE [kəˈloʊniəl]
adjective
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
see also ↑colony
2. (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
 
noun
a person who lives in a ↑colony and who comes from the country that controls it
•British colonials in India