colony meaning
EN
[ˈkɒl.əni] [ˈkɑləniː] 
US WColony
- In politics and history, a colony is a territory under the immediate political control of a state, distinct from the home territory of the sovereign. For colonies in antiquity, city-states would often found their own colonies.
- Unlike a puppet state or satellite state, a colony has no independent international representation, and its top-level administration is under direct control of the metropolitan state.
- The term informal colony is used by some historians to refer to a country under the de facto control of another state, although this term is often contentious.
- NounPLcoloniesPREcolo-
- A settlement of emigrants who move to a new place, but remain culturally tied to their original place of origin.
- Region or governmental unit created by another country and generally ruled by another country.
- A group of people with the same interests or ethnic origin concentrated in a particular geographic area.
- A group of organisms of same or different species living together in close association.
- A collective noun for rabbits.
- A settlement of emigrants who move to a new place, but remain culturally tied to their original place of origin.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- In this split-plot design a field colony represents a whole plot and one of the four experimental subcolonies is nested within the whole plot (representing a subplot).
- The Voortrekkers left the Cape Colony because of dissatisfaction with English rule.
- The colonies in each well were pooled and recultured for characterization and storage.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of colony in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "colony" is a noun, more specifically, a collective noun and a countable noun.