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  1. The meaning of COLONY is an area over which a foreign nation or state extends or maintains control; also : a group of people who establish residence in that area and who retain ties with the parent state. How to use colony in a sentence.

  2. Colony definition: a country or territory claimed and forcibly taken control of by a foreign power which sends its own people to settle there. See examples of COLONY used in a sentence.

  3. a country or area controlled politically by a more powerful country that is often far away: Australia and New Zealand are former British colonies. a group of people who live in a colony. a group of people with a shared interest or job who live together in a way that is separate from other people: an artists ' colony.

  4. A colony is a group of people who settle in a new place but keep ties to their homeland. The people who founded the United States first came to America to live as part of a British colony. Colony comes from the Latin colonia, meaning "settled land, farm."

  5. A colony is a country which is controlled by a more powerful country. He was born in Algeria, a former colony of France. ...the quantity of gold and silver raised in the Spanish colonies.

  6. COLONY meaning: 1 : an area that is controlled by or belongs to a country and is usually far away from it; 2 : a group of people sent by a country to live in such a colony.

  7. COLONY meaning: 1. a country or area controlled politically by a more powerful country that is often far away: 2…. Learn more.

  8. [countable + singular or plural verb] a group of people from the same place or with the same work or interests who live in a particular city or country or who live together. the American colony in Paris. an artists’ colony. [countable] (Indian English) a small town set up by an employer or an organization for its workers.

  9. colony - 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"

  10. noun. /ˈkɑləni/. (pl. colonies) [countable] a country or an area that is governed by people from another, more powerful, country former British colonies the Declaration of Independence of the 13 colonies and the creation of the United States.