colony
Meaning of colony
noun
- 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
- a group of people of one nationality or race living in a foreign place.
the British colony in New York
- a community of animals or plants of one kind living close together or forming a physically connected structure.
a colony of seals
late Middle English (denoting a settlement formed mainly of retired soldiers, acting as a garrison in newly conquered territory in the Roman Empire): from Latin colonia ‘settlement, farm’, from colonus ‘settler, farmer’, from colere ‘cultivate’.
Information about colony
- It is a name.
- The plural form of colony is: colonies.
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Hyphenation of colony
colony
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- colony is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
colony synonyms
Meaning settlement:
Meaning dependency:
Meaning an area of land under the jurisdiction of a ruler or state:
Meaning a territory or country controlled or governed by another:
Meaning an area of land held by lease:
Meaning a principal administrative division of a country or empire:
Meaning the territory of a sovereign or government:
Meaning a state that is controlled and protected by another:
Meaning a small military camp or position at some distance from the main army, used especially as a guard against surprise attack:
Meaning a river or stream flowing into a larger river or lake:
Meaning an estate of land, especially one held on condition of feudal service; a fee:
Meaning all the inhabitants of a particular place:
Meaning a group of people living together and practising common ownership:
Translation of colony
Words that rhyme with colony
Malony, Melony, antifelony, felony, nonfelony, unfelony, logoklony, autocolony, microcolony, polony, semicolony, subcolony, Ouchterlony
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