🇬🇧 Colonization meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

Colonization means when a group of people, animals, or even tiny organisms move to a new area and begin living there. In history, it often refers to when countries sent people to live in new lands and take control of them. In science, it can also mean when plants, animals, or bacteria spread to new places.

Colonization of the backyard by gnomes is going well—they’ve built a tiny city.

The colonization of my bedroom by dirty socks is officially complete.

The mold’s colonization of the fridge was swift and fuzzy.

The dog’s colonization of the sofa includes drool-based borders.

The colonization of my sandwich by ants was swift and unstoppable.

The cliff watched a slow colonization as gulls came to the empty island. Colonization began with a single nest; colonization spread when more birds arrived, twigs and cries filling air. Tide took eggs, but colonization held: chicks hatched, nests clung to rock. This colonization made the cliff hum. The watching children laughed; the island felt new.

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