colony
About 15.47 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun 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.
- noun A group of people who settle an area and maintain ties to their country of origin.
a colony of British expats in Spain
- noun 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
- noun A group of organisms of same or different species living together in close association.
ant colony; coral colony
- noun An apartment complex or neighborhood.
Our colony is quite small, but each apartment is large.
- noun A local group of Beaver Scouts.
- noun A potential new chapter of a fraternity or sorority awaiting official recognition from their headquarters.
- verb To colonize.
Similar words
province territory mandate settlement dominion territorial dominion colonization colonial colonialism community
Often followed by
of in and was to at is on had
Word family
colonies
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