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   col·o·ny

   /ˈkälənē/

   noun

   • 1. a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country: "Japanese forces overran the French colony of Indo-China" Similar territorypossessionholdingdependencyprovincedominionprotectoratesatellite (state)settlementoutposthistorical:tributaryfief
   • ▪ 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"
   • ▪ another term for Thirteen Colonies British
   • 2. a group of people of one nationality or ethnic group living in a foreign city or country: "the British colony in New York" Similar populationcommunity
   • ▪ a place where a group of people with similar interests live together: "an artists' colony" Similar communityassociationcommunesettlementquarterdistrictsectionghetto
   • ▪ a housing development or residential community, especially one originally constructed by an employer for its workers: South Asian "a large housing colony has already been built"
   • 3. 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.

   Word Origin 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’.

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   Synonyms and antonyms of colony in English. colony. noun. These are words and phrases related to colony. Click on any word or phrase to go to its thesaurus page. Or, go to the definition of colony. New York was originally a Dutch colony. Synonyms. settlement. province. territory. dependency. dominion. protectorate. possession. mandate.

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   colony, dependency noun. a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country. Synonyms: dependence, dependance, habituation, dependency, settlement, addiction. colony noun. (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell. Synonyms: dependency, settlement.

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   Other forms: colonies. 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."