1relating to or characteristic of a colony or colonies:British colonial rulecolonial expansion
denoting a predominantly neoclassical style of architecture characteristic of the period of the British colonies in America before independence, featuring a modification of the Queen Anne style:beautiful colonial villages of New Hampshirea big, white, colonial church
2(of animals or plants) living in colonies:corals can be solitary or colonial
noun
1a native or inhabitant of a colony:a rebellion by Dutch-speaking colonials
2a house built in colonial style:the house was a 1903 colonial
Derivatives
colonially
adverb
colonial in other Oxford dictionaries
Definition of colonial in the US English dictionary
