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Colony
ˈkɒləni
Colony definitions
noun
colonies
colony
- a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country
"Japanese forces overran the French colony of Indo-China"
territory possession holding dependency province dominion protectorate satellite (state) settlement outpost- a group of people living in a colony, consisting of the original settlers and their descendants and successors
"the colony looked forward to fifty or more years of autonomy"
- all the foreign countries or areas formerly under British political control
"many poachers were exiled to the colonies"
- a group of people of one nationality or race living in a foreign place
"the British colony in New York"
- a place where a group of people with the same occupation or interest live together
"a nudist colony"
- a housing estate or residential community, especially one originally constructed by an employer for its workers
"a large housing colony has already been built"
- a community of animals or plants of one kind living close together or forming a physically connected structure
"a colony of seals"
- a group of fungi or bacteria grown from a single spore or cell on a culture medium