colonizer (kolonizer)

One who colonizes; one who establishes colonies. Also colo niser. colonizing (kol'ō-ni-zing), p. a. [Ppr. of colo nize, v.] Given to emigration and the founding of colonies in new countries: as, the British are a colonizing people. Also colonising. Rhodes too was in early times a colonizing , and so a famous power-one, therefore, of which some knowledge might naturally have reached the writer of the Pent a teuch. G. Rawlinson , Orig. of Nations, ii. 188. [