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takeoff

EnglishMerriam-Webster Dictionary

class='function-label' role='heading' aria-level='3'>Noun

//They bought a Colonial on a quiet street.
//increasing tension between colonials and the mother country

First Known Use

Adjective

1764, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Noun

1797, in the meaning defined at sense 1

colonial

adjective

Synonyms & Antonyms (Entry 1 of 2)

tending to group with others of the same kind //colonial organisms
Synonyms

gregarious sociable social
Related Words

associational consociational subsocial
dependent parasitic (also parasitical) precocial symbiotic
Near Antonyms

autonomous independent self-contained semiautonomous semi-independent
altricial self-subsistent self-sufficient self-supporting self-sustaining
lone recluse reclusive unsociable
Antonyms

nonsocial solitary

noun

Synonyms (Entry 2 of 2)

a person who settles in a new region //European colonials who built coffee plantations in East Africa
Synonyms

colonist colonizer frontiersman homesteader pioneer settler
Related Words

explorer pathfinder trailblazer
bushranger mountain man woodsman

coloring book

noun

Definition

a book of line drawings for coloring (as with crayons)

Examples

//I bought my son a new coloring book.

First Known Use

1849, in the meaning defined above

combine

verb (1)

com·bine

kəm-ˈbīn

combined; combining

Definition (Entry 1 of 3)

transitive verb
to bring into such close relationship as to obscure individual characters merge class='function-label' role='heading' aria-level='3'>Noun
- //They bought a Colonial on a quiet street.
- //increasing tension between colonials and the mother country

First Known Use

Adjective

1764, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Noun

1797, in the meaning defined at sense 1

colonial

adjective

Synonyms & Antonyms (Entry 1 of 2)

tending to group with others of the same kind //colonial organisms
Synonyms

gregarious sociable social
Related Words

associational consociational subsocial
dependent parasitic (also parasitical) precocial symbiotic
Near Antonyms

autonomous independent self-contained semiautonomous semi-independent
altricial self-subsistent self-sufficient self-supporting self-sustaining
lone recluse reclusive unsociable
Antonyms

nonsocial solitary

noun

Synonyms (Entry 2 of 2)

a person who settles in a new region //European colonials who built coffee plantations in East Africa
Synonyms

colonist colonizer frontiersman homesteader pioneer settler
Related Words

explorer pathfinder trailblazer
bushranger mountain man woodsman

coloring book

noun

Definition

a book of line drawings for coloring (as with crayons)

Examples

//I bought my son a new coloring book.

First Known Use

1849, in the meaning defined above

combine

verb (1)

com·bine

kəm-ˈbīn

combined; combining

Definition (Entry 1 of 3)

transitive verb
to bring into such close relationship as to obscure individual characters merge