Colony

//ˈkɔl.ə.ni// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A place in the United States:; A town in Cullman County, Arkansas.
  2. 2
    A place in the United States:; A township in Adams County, Iowa.
  3. 3
    A place in the United States:; A township in Delaware County, Iowa.
  4. 4
    A place in the United States:; A minor city in Anderson County, Kansas.
  5. 5
    A place in the United States:; A former township in Greeley County, Kansas.
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  1. 6
    A place in the United States:; A neighbourhood in south-west Lexington, Kentucky.
  2. 7
    A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community and inactive township in Knox County, Missouri.
  3. 8
    A place in the United States:; A town in Washita County, Oklahoma.
Noun
  1. 1
    A geographical area under the remote control of a country; especially to extract resources or exploit labor from that area.

    "Much of the eastern United States was formerly a British colony; other areas were French, Spanish, Dutch, or Swedish colonies."

  2. 2
    a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together wordnet
  3. 3
    A group of people who settle an area and maintain ties to their country of origin.

    "a colony of British expats in Spain"

  4. 4
    (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell wordnet
  5. 5
    A group of people with similar interests, occupations, or characteristics, living in a particular area; the area such people occupy.

    "a nudist colony; the statue was put up right in the middle of the artist colony"

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  1. 6
    a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government wordnet
  2. 7
    A group of organisms of same or different species living together in close association.

    "ant colony; coral colony"

  3. 8
    a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country wordnet
  4. 9
    An apartment complex or neighborhood. India

    "Our colony is quite small, but each apartment is large."

  5. 10
    a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated wordnet
  6. 11
    A local group of Beaver Scouts.
  7. 12
    one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States wordnet
  8. 13
    A potential new chapter of a fraternity or sorority awaiting official recognition from their headquarters.

    "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."

Verb
  1. 1
    To colonize. obsolete, rare, transitive

    "Such black Attendants Colonied thy Cell, / But for thy Preſence, Car’sbrook had been Hell."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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.

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