colony - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'colony' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Colony

[ n.]

- A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent state; as, the British colonies in America.
- The district or country colonized; a settlement.
- A company of persons from the same country sojourning in a foreign city or land; as, the American colony in Paris.
- A number of animals or plants living or growing together, beyond their usual range.

Meaning of 'colony' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . colony

[ n]

Meaning (1):
- a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated

Example in sentence:

a nudist colony;
an artists' colony

Meaning (2):
- 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

Example in sentence:

the American colony in Paris

Nearby Words:

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Colony
Colony is a macroscopically visible growth of microorganisms on a solid culture medium.
Colony-forming unit
Colony-forming unit is the cell or aggregate of cells which gives rise to a single colony in the plate-count technique. Abbreviation.

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