One who colonizes.

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1817.  G. S. Faber, Eight Dissert. (1845), I. 149. Certain other warlike colonisers.

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1876.  Bancroft, Hist. U. S., VI. xxx. 92. The oldest colonizers of the Delaware were Swedes.

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1880.  A. R. Wallace, Isl. Life, xxii. 472. Alpine plants possess two advantages as colonisers.

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