resident vs colonial

colonial vs resident

resident and colonial both are nouns.

resident and colonial both are adjectives.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
resident	Yes	Yes	No	No
colonial	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, colonial is a hyponym of resident; that is, colonial is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than resident:

resident: someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there
colonial: a resident of a colony

Other hyponyms of resident include Alexandrian, coaster, dalesman, housemate, inmate, metropolitan, outlier, owner-occupier, sojourner, stater, suburbanite, tenant, towner, townsman.

resident (noun)	colonial (noun)
someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there	a resident of a colony
a physician (especially an intern) who lives in a hospital and cares for hospitalized patients under the supervision of the medical staff of the hospital

resident (adjective)	colonial (adjective)
living in a particular place	of or relating to or characteristic of or inhabiting a colony
used of animals that do not migrate	of animals who live in colonies, such as ants
	composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony

Difference between resident and colonial

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