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Noun: coloniser  'kó-lu,nI-zu(r)
Usage: Brit (N. Amer: colonizer)
  1. Someone who helps to found a colony
    "The early colonisers faced many hardships in the New World";
    - colonizer

Derived forms: colonisers

Type of: father, founder, founding father

Encyclopedia: Coloniser