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colonisation

noun

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Pronunciation: /kɔlənɪˈzɛjʃən/

noun

  1. Alternative spelling of colonization.

    Colonisation began towards the end of 1826, when a British settlement was founded at Albany, on the southern coast, and in the next year the whole territory (then known as New Holland) became a possession of the British Crown.