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.
Phrases and idioms:
colonial goose Austral. & NZ a boned and stuffed roast leg of mutton.
Derivatives:
colonially adv.