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colony

/ˈkɔl.ə.ni/noun3 syllables

Colony means: a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government.

Synonyms for colony2

noun, as in a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government

settlement

noun, as in a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country

dependency

What does colony mean?6

noun

1

a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government“the American colony in Paris”

2

a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country

3

one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States

4

a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together

5

a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated“a nudist colony”

6

(microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Colony in a sentence

  • The bat colony roosted in the old barn.Amastan
  • The colony declared independence and became a republic.CK
  • The colony has not declared independence as yet.CM
  • A sauroid soldier in powered armor guarded the entrance to the orbital colony.rul
  • The bat colony resides in the nearby cave.Amastan
  • Each terraforming zone had an assignee responsible for monitoring atmospheric stability across the colony.rul
  • The area remained a colony for some two and a half centuries.The_World_Factbook
  • Jonas decided to head to the alien colony.Amastan

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Forms of colony

as a noun

plural
colonies