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   colony

   /ˈkɒləni/

   noun

   • 1. 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" 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 race living in a foreign place: "the British colony in New York" Similar populationcommunity
   • ▪ a place where a group of people with the same occupation or interest live together: "a nudist colony" Similar communityassociationcommunesettlementquarterdistrictsectionghetto
   • ▪ a housing estate 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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   What is a group of people who live in a colony?

   • [singular + singular or plural verb] a group of people who go to live permanently in a colony [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

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   What is colony noun?

   • Definition of colony noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary [countable] a country or an area that is governed by people from another, more powerful, country Want to learn more? [singular + singular or plural verb] a group of people who go to live permanently in a colony

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   What is a colony based on?

   • The colonies means the 13 British colonies in North America which formed the original United States. On the eve of the Revolution, the colonies produced thirty thousand tons of crude iron a year. A colony of birds, insects, or animals is a group of them that live together. The caterpillars feed in large colonies.

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   Which country was a British colony?

   • India was a British colony. Australia and New Zealand are former British colonies. Europe saw its colonies as a source of raw material and a malleable workforce. Peru was colonized by the Spanish in the 16th century. A minimum of 200 colonies were analyzed for each plasmid tested at each temperature.

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   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.

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   noun. /ˈkɒləni/ /ˈkɑːləni/ (plural 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. Extra Examples. Topics History b2. Oxford Collocations Dictionary. Join us.

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    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."