| Colonial (a.) of or pertaining to a colony; as, colonial rights, traffic, wars. Thesaurus Entries colonial, colonist, colonizer, hirer, immigrant, incumbent, leaseholder, lessee, lodger, nester, occupant, occupier, paying guest, pioneer, planter, precursor, renter, resident, roomer, settler, sooner, squatter, sublessee, subtenant, tenant, tenant at sufferance, tenant for life, underlessee |