Colony - English meaning
Colony – definitions in English dictionary
nounA country or area under the full or partial political control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country.
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Japanese forces overran the french colony of indo-chinanounA group of people of one nationality or race living in a foreign place.
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The british colony in new yorkSynonims:
nounA community of animals or plants of one kind living close together or forming a physically connected structure.
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A colony of seals
nounA country or area controlled politically by a more powerful country
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An artists’ colony, an ant colony, peru was colonized by the spanish in the 16th century.
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Word origin
late Middle English (denoting a settlement formed mainly of retired soldiers, acting as a garrison in newly conquered territory in the Roman Empire): from Latin colonia ‘settlement, farm’, fr
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