Definition that contains colonist
- settled inhabited by colonists
- williams English clergyman and colonist who was expelled from Massachusetts for criticizing Puritanism; he founded Providence in 1636 and obtained a royal charter for Rhode Island in 1663 (1603-1683)
- franklin printer whose success as an author led him to take up politics; he helped draw up the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; he played a major role in the American Revolution and negotiated French support for the colonists; as a scientist he is remembered particularly for his research in electricity (1706-1790)
- burke British statesman famous for his oratory; pleaded the cause of the American colonists in British Parliament and defended the parliamentary system (1729-1797)
- portugal a republic in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; Portuguese explorers and colonists in the 15th and 16th centuries created a vast overseas empire (including Brazil)
- pioneer one of the first colonists or settlers in a new territory
- pilgrim one of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620
- wilkes English reformer who published attacks on George III and supported the rights of the American colonists (1727-1797)
- quincy American patriot who presented the colonists' grievances to the English king (1744-1775)
- revere American silversmith remembered for his midnight ride (celebrated in a poem by Longfellow) to warn the colonists in Lexington and Concord that British troops were coming (1735-1818)