Colonial or The Colonial may refer to:
- Colonial (PRR train), a Pennsylvania Railroad run between Washington, DC and New York City, last operated in 1973 by Amtrak
- Colonial (Amtrak train), an Amtrak train that ran between Newport News, Virginia and Boston from 1976 to 1992, and between Richmond, Virginia and New York City from 1997 to 1999
- Colonial history of the United States, the period of American history from the 17th century to 1776, under the rule of Great Britain, France and Spain
- Colonial Hotel (disambiguation)
- Colonial Revival architecture
- Colonial Theatre (disambiguation)
- Colonial troops, any of various military units recruited from, or used as garrison troops in, colonial territories
- Colonialism, the extension of political control to new areas
- Colonials (disambiguation)
- Colonist, a person who has migrated to an area and established a permanent residence there to colonize the area
- History of Australia
- Spanish colonization of the Americas, the period of history of Spanish rule over most of the Americas, from the 15th century through the late 19th century