Synonyms:
colonization, colonisation, settlement
Meaning: the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies; "the British colonization of America"
Usage examples
THE PROCESS OF COLONIZATION
His design was to visit India, in the belief that he had in his knowledge of its various languages, and in the views he had taken of its society, the means of materially assisting the progress of European colonization and trade.
Raleigh only joined with his brothers in the scheme, following their lead, but he neither conceived nor began the carrying into execution--as he has been too often credited with doing--of this fruitful project, the colonization of the American shores of the Atlantic.