He was, too, the father of the colonizer of New Mexico, Juan de Onate.
As an explorer he stands unequalled, but as a colonizer he utterly failed.
Juan de Onate, thecolonizer of New Mexico, and founder of the second town within the limits of the United States, as well as of the city which is now our next oldest, was born in Zacatecas, Mexico.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "colonizer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: homesteader; immigrant; pioneer; planter; precursor; settler; sooner; squatter
