colony
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁-e-ti
Proto-Italic *kʷelō
Latin colō
Latin colōnus
Latin colōniader.
Middle English colane
English colony
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.
Inflected forms:
form: colonies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A geographical area under the remote control of a country; especially to extract resources or exploit labor from that area.
pos: noun
examples: Much of the eastern United States was formerly a British colony; other areas were French, Spanish, Dutch, or Swedish colonies.
Bermuda is a crown colony of Great Britain.
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 ;[…]
[…] money problems and refusal to supply them with British coins were two big reasons why the thirteen colonies rebelled and declared their independence.
gloss: A group of people who settle an area and maintain ties to their country of origin.
pos: noun
examples: a colony of British expats in Spain
The Amana Colonies in Iowa were settled by people from Germany.
The question of ecclesiastical jurisdiction had to be answered before the colony sailed for East Florida.
gloss: A group of people with similar interests, occupations, or characteristics, living in a particular area; the area such people occupy.
pos: noun
examples: a nudist colony; the statue was put up right in the middle of the artist colony
a leper colony on the outskirts of town; most buildings in the penal colony were made of concrete
gloss: A group of organisms of same or different species living together in close association.
pos: noun
examples: ant colony; coral colony
a colony of specialized polyps and medusoids
colonies of stem cells
In the small hours came the fetid smell of a flying-fox colony.
gloss: An apartment complex or neighborhood.
pos: noun
tags: India
examples: Our colony is quite small, but each apartment is large.
gloss: A local group of Beaver Scouts.
pos: noun
gloss: A potential new chapter of a fraternity or sorority awaiting official recognition from their headquarters.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
Related words: Cologne
Crown colony
cult
culture
metropole
Derived words: ant colony
artificial bee colony
autocolony
bird colony
Cape Colony
Colony of Virginia
crown colony
Delft Colony
freedom colony
leper colony
Lost Colony
lunar colony
macrocolony
megacolony
Mexican Colony
microcolony
monocolony
neo-colony
nudist colony
O'Neill colony
Orange River Colony
paleocolony
penal colony
pseudocolony
Roanoke Colony
rolony
semi-colony
space colony
subcolony
supercolony
coloner
colonial
colonialism
coloniarch
colonigenic
colonise
colonize
colonist
colony collapse disorder
colony counter
colony-forming unit
colonyhood
colony-stimulating factor
granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor
intercolony
intracolony
Jewish colony
polony
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