植民地・殖民地|しょくみんちshokuminchi

1. nouncolony
   数すう年ねん後ご、ヨーロッパ人にんたちは沿岸えんがんの植民地しょくみんちに住み着すみついた。↗

   Years later, Europeans established colonies in the coastal areas.

   その習慣しゅうかんを彼かれは植民地しょくみんち時代じだいから始はじまると推定すいていしている。↗

   He dates the custom from the colonial days.
2. noun(Japanese) settlement (in Brazil)

• SynonymコロニーNeutralNeutral loanword for a colony or a biological colony, with an academic flavor; 「植民地」 is the standard historical and political term.
• Related植民しょくみんWrittenWritten noun for the act of colonizing itself; 「植民地」 is the area that has been colonized.
• Related租界そかいWrittenWritten term for concessions in modern Chinese treaty ports run under foreign administrative and police power; 「植民地」 is a whole ruled or settled land.
• Related付庸ふようWrittenWritten term for vassalage or dependence, stressing the subordinate relationship; 「植民地」 is a concrete territory.
• Related居留地きょりゅうちWrittenWritten term for foreign settlements or concessions, also reservations; 「植民地」 is territory under colonial rule.
• Related属国ぞっこくWrittenWritten term for a vassal state that keeps its form as a state; 「植民地」 is usually not an independent country.
• Related属領ぞくりょうWrittenWritten term for a territory belonging to another country; 「植民地」 stresses colonial rule.
• Related従属国じゅうぞくこくWrittenWritten term for a dependency that keeps statehood while its economy and diplomacy are controlled; 「植民地」 stresses the settled or ruled area.
• Related入植地にゅうしょくちWrittenWritten term for land settled by migrants who build communities there; 「植民地」 often also implies foreign rule.
• RelatedコロニアNeutralNeutral loanword for Japanese immigrant settlements in South America; 「植民地」 has this sense too but usually means ruled territory.
• Antonym宗主国そうしゅこくWrittenWritten term for the suzerain state, the opposite of the ruled 「植民地」.

Use 「植民地」 for a settled territory, especially one under foreign rule, as in 「植民地支配」. For the act of colonizing say 「植民」; for a vassal state 「属国」; for concessions 「租界」; for migrant settlements 「入植地」; the ruling power is 「宗主国」.

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1. （歴史的れきしてき意義いぎ）ある民族みんぞくなどが、もともと居住きょじゅうしていた土地とちを保たもちつつ、その一部いちぶを、従来じゅうらい居住きょじゅうしていなかった土地とちに移民いみんさせ、同一どういつの支配しはいないし文化ぶんか等とうを共有きょうゆうさせることとなった土地とち。古代こだいギリシアや古代こだいローマ、又または、大航海だいこうかい時代じだい以降いこうの新大陸しんたいりく殖民地しょくみんちがこれに当あたる。
2. （近代的きんだいてき意義いぎ）排他的はいたてきで、唯一ゆいいつの支配しはいに属ぞくする土地とちのうち、そこに定住ていじゅうする者ものの当該とうがい支配しはいに参加さんかする権利けんりが、著いちじるしく制限せいげんされている領域りょういき。