colon
Meanings
Noun
1. colonist, colonizer, colonial settler
2. camper (child in a colonie de vacances)
3. sharecropper in the system of colonat partiaire
4. hillbilly, hick (vulgar, Canada)
5. colonel (military slang, slang)
Examples18
Les colons furent arrachés à leur terre.
Settlers were forced off their land.
L'Algérie a attiré beaucoup de colons français et européens.
Algeria attracted many French and European settlers.
Les colons cultivent leur propre nourriture.
The settlers grew their own food.
Il faut dénoncer les actions criminelles des colons.
The criminal actions of the colonists must be denounced.
Ziri a été attaqué par quatre colons israéliens.
Ziri was attacked by four Israeli settlers.
Le jardin de Wafi a été envahi par des colons juifs armés.
Wafi's backyard was invaded by armed Jewish settlers.