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Colony
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- 1 A place in the United States:; A town in Cullman County, Arkansas.
- 2 A place in the United States:; A township in Adams County, Iowa.
- 3 A place in the United States:; A township in Delaware County, Iowa.
- 4 A place in the United States:; A minor city in Anderson County, Kansas.
- 5 A place in the United States:; A former township in Greeley County, Kansas.
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- 6 A place in the United States:; A neighbourhood in south-west Lexington, Kentucky.
- 7 A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community and inactive township in Knox County, Missouri.
- 8 A place in the United States:; A town in Washita County, Oklahoma.
- 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 a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together wordnet
- 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 (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell wordnet
- 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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- 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
- 7 A group of organisms of same or different species living together in close association.
"ant colony; coral colony"
- 8 a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country wordnet
- 9 An apartment complex or neighborhood. India
"Our colony is quite small, but each apartment is large."
- 10 a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated wordnet
- 11 A local group of Beaver Scouts.
- 12 one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States wordnet
- 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."
- 1 To colonize. obsolete, rare, transitive
"Such black Attendants Colonied thy Cell, / But for thy Preſence, Car’sbrook had been Hell."
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.
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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