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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
- 2. a group of people of one nationality or race living in a foreign place: "the British colony in New York" Similar
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COLONY definition: 1. a country or area controlled politically by a more powerful country that is often far away: 2…. Learn more.
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.
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.
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.
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. a nudist colony.
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. Definitions on the go.
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."
A group of the same kind of animals, plants, or one-celled organisms living or growing together: a colony of ants; a colony of bacteria. The American Heritage® Student Science Dictionary, Second Edition.
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.
COLONY definition: 1. a country or area controlled in an official, political way by a more powerful country: 2. a…. Learn more.
