ALL meanings of colony
col·o·ny
C c - countable noun colony A colony is a country which is controlled by a more powerful country. 3
- countable noun colony You can refer to a place where a particular group of people lives as a particular kind of colony. 3
- noun plural colony The colonies means all the countries that used to be British colonies. 3
- noun plural colony The colonies means the 13 British colonies in North America which formed the original United States. 3
- countable noun colony A colony of birds, insects, or animals is a group of them that live together. 3
- noun colony a body of people who settle in a country distant from their homeland but maintain ties with it 3
- noun colony the community formed by such settlers 3
- noun colony a subject territory occupied by a settlement from the ruling state 3
- noun colony a community of people who form a national, racial, or cultural minority 3
- noun colony the area itself 3
- noun colony a group of the same type of animal or plant living or growing together, esp in large numbers 3
- noun colony an interconnected group of polyps of a colonial organism 3
- noun colony a group of bacteria, fungi, etc, derived from one or a few spores, esp when grown on a culture medium 3
- noun colony a group of people who settle in a distant land but remain under the political jurisdiction of their native land 3
- noun colony the region thus settled 3
- noun colony a territory distant from the state having jurisdiction or control over it 3
- noun colony the thirteen British colonies in North America that won their independence in the Revolutionary War and became the U.S.: they were Va., N.Y., Mass., Conn., R.I., N.H., Md., N.J., N.C., S.C., Pa., Del., and Ga. 3
- noun colony a community of people of the same nationality or pursuits concentrated in a particular district or place 3
- noun colony such a district or place 3
- noun colony a group of cells that are derived from a single initial cell, growing separately on a solid culture medium 3
- noun colony a group of similar plants or animals living or growing together 3
- noun colony a compound organism consisting of several to many incompletely separated individuals, as in corals and hydroids 3
- noun colony 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. 1
- noun plural colony a group of people who leave their native country to form in a new land a settlement subject to, or connected with, the parent nation. 1
- noun plural colony the country or district settled or colonized: Many Western nations are former European colonies. 1
- noun plural colony any people or territory separated from but subject to a ruling power. 1
- noun plural colony the Colonies, those British colonies that formed the original 13 states of the United States: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. 1
- noun plural colony a number of people coming from the same country, or speaking the same language, residing in a foreign country or city, or a particular section of it; enclave: the Polish colony in Israel; the American colony in Paris. 1
- noun plural colony any group of individuals having similar interests, occupations, etc., usually living in a particular locality; community: a colony of artists. 1
- noun plural colony the district, quarter, or dwellings inhabited by any such number or group: The Greek island is now an artists' colony. 1
- noun plural colony an aggregation of bacteria growing together as the descendants of a single cell. 1
- noun plural colony Ecology. a group of organisms of the same kind living or growing in close association. 1
- noun colony The, a city in NE Texas. 1
- noun colony people: settlement 1
- noun colony insects: group 1
- noun colony A settlement of emigrants who move to a new place, but remain culturally tied to their original place of origin. 0
- noun colony Region or governmental unit created by another country and generally ruled by another country. 0
- noun colony A group of people with the same interests or ethnic origin concentrated in a particular geographic area. 0
- noun colony A group of organisms of same or different species living together in close association. 0
- noun colony A collective noun for rabbits. 0