colonials
- 1Plural of colonial.
The governor rarely listened to the colonials he had been sent to rule.
Thousands of colonials gathered in the square to protest the new tax.
Note
A regular plural, made with -s, and one only the noun can take. The adjective never inflects, so colonial governors keeps its form while the people themselves become colonials. The plural also covers both nouns behind it: people from a country controlled by another, and, in American usage, houses built in the style of New England's colonial period, as in a street lined with colonials.
The couple restored two brick colonials on Elm Street.
Several colonials in the suburb went up for sale this spring.
colonials is a form of colonial
colonial, noun: A person who comes from a country controlled, now or in the past, by another. Full entry
- Forms
- colonialcolonials plural
- Spelling
- colonial → colonials: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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