Colony - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
- a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated
an artists' colony
- (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
Extra examples
Massachusetts was one of the original 13 British colonies that later became the United States.
Algeria was formerly a French colony.
...the great influence exerted by the Puritan divines in the Massachusetts Bay Colony...
Religious dissension threatened to split the colony.
...the mystery of those strange noises became quite explicable once we realized that a colony of bats had taken up residence...
...the development of the colony involved expropriation of large tracts of fertile farmland from the natives...
Australia was once a penal colony.
...would like to see a colony on the moon as an actuality and not merely a potentiality...
...sailed home with just a remnant of the colony's original population aboard...
...a few strange words carved on a tree were the only vestige of the lost colony of Roanoke...
Separate townships have coalesced into a single, sprawling colony.
...a time when people with unorthodox religious views were banished from the colony...
The colony will not long fulfil its part in this unequal bargain. (H. Martineau)
No other colony showed such supine, selfish helplessness in allowing her own border citizens to be mercilessly harried
Word forms
singular: colony
plural: colonies
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