No you used the term colonise with regard to the British Empire. I explained your misunderstanding.
Learn to use a dictionary in conjunction with your history books.
And if you hadn't skipped History you'd have realised that the term "Crown colony" was primarily used to refer to those colonies that had been acquired through wars.
You don't half spout some crap to justify your views, by 1922 the British Empire held sway over about 458 million people, one-fifth of the world's population.