adj. & n.
adj. 1 of, relating to, or characteristic of a colony or colonies, esp. of a British Crown Colony. 2 (esp. of architecture or furniture) built or designed in, or in a style characteristic of, the period of the British colonies in America before independence.
n. 1 a native or inhabitant of a colony. 2 a house built in colonial style. colonial goose Austral. & NZ a boned and stuffed roast leg of mutton. colonially adv.