colony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒl.ə.ni/
ipa: /ˈkɔl.ə.ni/
ipa: /ˈkɑ.lə.ni/
ipa: /ˈkɔl.ə.ni/
Forms: form: colonies
Etymology: From Middle English colane, colonye, from Latin colōnia (“colony”), from colōnus (“farmer; colonist”), from colō (“till, cultivate, worship”), from earlier *quelō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”). Doublet of Cologne, Colonia, and Köln.
Senses: examples: text: Much of the eastern United States was formerly a British colony; other areas were French, Spanish, Dutch, or Swedish colonies.
text: Bermuda is a crown colony of Great Britain.
text: And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforeſaid, That in every Town in the Colony, where Bread is Baken for Sale, there ſhall be Choſen one Clerk of the Market, or more, as each Town ſhall find needful, at their Annual Election of Town Officers, who ſhall duly be Engaged, to the faithful performance of ſaid Office, as other Town Officers are ;[…]
ref: 1719, “An ACT, Stating the due Aſſize of Bread”, in The Charter Granted by His Majeſty, King Charles the Second, to the Colony of Rhode-Iſland, and Providence-plantations in America, John Allen, page 59:
text: […] money problems and refusal to supply them with British coins were two big reasons why the thirteen colonies rebelled and declared their independence.
ref: 1939, Frederic Majer, Our Country's Money:
glosses: An area under the political control of another country and typically occupied by settlers (colonists) from it, or by their descendants.
examples: text: The question of ecclesiastical jurisdiction had to be answered before the colony sailed for East Florida.
ref: 2006, Kenneth H. Beeson Jr., Fromajadas and Indigo: The Minorcan Colony in Florida, Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: A group of people who settle such an area and maintain ties to their native country, and (later) their descendants.
examples: text: a colony of British expats in Spain
text: The Amana Colonies in Iowa were settled by people from Germany.
glosses: A group of people, of one nationality, ethnic group, or language, residing in a different country, city, or area; the area such people occupy.
examples: text: a nudist colony; the statue was put up right in the middle of the artist colony
text: a leper colony on the outskirts of town; most buildings in the penal colony were made of concrete
glosses: A group of people with similar interests, occupations, or characteristics, living in a particular area; the area such people occupy.
examples: text: ant colony; coral colony
text: a colony of specialized polyps and medusoids
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A group of organisms of same or different species living together in close association.
examples: text: colonies of stem cells
glosses: A group of bacteria, fungi or other cells cultured together, especially from a single cell.
examples: text: Our colony is quite small, but each apartment is large.
glosses: An apartment complex or neighborhood.
glosses: A local group of Beaver Scouts.
examples: text: That weekend in 2013, fraternity members from Baruch, a commuter school in Manhattan whose Pi Delta Psi colony was only about three years old, gathered in a large rental house in Tunkhannock Township, Pa. Early on a frigid morning, Mr. Deng followed the other pledges in putting on a blindfold and backpack.
ref: 2018 January 7, Rick Rojas, “A Partial Win for Prosecutors Who Targeted Fraternity After Student’s Death”, in New York Times:
glosses: A potential new chapter of a fraternity or sorority awaiting official recognition from their headquarters.
Hyponyms: topics: commercial
commerce
business
sense: foreign-dominated enclave
english: small
translation: small
word: trading post
sense: foreign-dominated enclave
word: factory
sense: foreign-dominated enclave
word: fondaco
Derived terms: word: artificial bee colony
word: autocolony
word: bird colony
word: Cape Colony
word: coloner
alt: n.
word: colonial
alt: n.
word: colonialism
word: coloniarch
word: colonigenic
word: colonise
word: colonize
alt: n.
word: colonist
word: colony collapse disorder
word: colony counter
word: colony-forming unit
alt: n.
word: colonyhood
word: Colony of Virginia
word: colony-stimulating factor
word: crown colony
word: Delft Colony
word: freedom colony
word: granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor
word: intercolony
word: intracolony
word: leper colony
word: Lost Colony
word: lunar colony
word: macrocolony
word: megacolony
word: Mexican Colony
word: microcolony
word: monocolony
word: neo-colony
word: nudist colony
word: O'Neill colony
word: Orange River Colony
word: paleocolony
word: penal colony
word: polony
word: pseudocolony
word: Roanoke Colony
word: rolony
word: semi-colony
word: space colony
word: subcolony
word: supercolony
Related terms: topics: city
cities
region
location
alt: n.
word: Cologne
word: Crown colony
word: cult
word: culture
word: metropole