colōnus — meaning in English

English meaning

• colonist noun A founder of a colony.
• serf noun A peasant tied to a piece of land under a feudal lord, obliged to work it but with very limited personal freedoms.
• settler noun A person who moves to and establishes a home in a new, often previously unsettled, area.

Senses

colōnus is used for these senses in English:

• colonist A founder of a colony.
• serf A partially free peasant of a low hereditary class, attached like a slave to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights.
• settler Someone who settles in a new location, especially one who takes up residence in a previously uninhabited place; a colonist.

colonist — full definition

1. noun A founder of a colony.
2. noun A member of a colony.

Related Latin words