- nouncolony (noun) · colonies (plural noun) · the colonies (plural noun)
- 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"
- 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"
- (the colonies)all the foreign countries or areas formerly under British political control:"many poachers were exiled to the colonies"
- BRITISH ENGLISH(the Colonies)another term for Thirteen Colonies
- a group of people of one nationality or ethnic group living in a foreign city or country:"the British colony in New York"
- a place where a group of people with similar interests live together:"an artists' colony"
- SOUTH ASIAN ENGLISHa housing development or residential community, especially one originally constructed by an employer for its workers:"a large housing colony has already been built" · "one of Jaipur's largest residential colonies"
- biologya 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.
Originlate 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’.Similar and Opposite Wordsnoun- 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:
- a group of people of one nationality or ethnic group living in a foreign city or country:
- a place where a group of people with similar interests live together:
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