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Definition of Colony

1. Noun. 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. "The American colony in Paris"

2. Noun. A group of organisms of the same type living or growing together.

3. Noun. One of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States.

4. Noun. A place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated. "An artists' colony"

5. Noun. A geographical area politically controlled by a distant country.

6. Noun. (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell.

Definition of Colony

1. 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.

2. n. A cell family or group of common origin, mostly of unicellular organisms, esp. among the lower algæ. They may adhere in chains or groups, or be held together by a gelatinous envelope.

Definition of Colony

1. Noun. A settlement of emigrants who move to a new place, but remain culturally tied to their original place ¹

2. Noun. Region or governmental unit created by another country and generally ruled by another country. ¹

3. Noun. A group of people with the same interests or ethnic origin concentrated in a particular geographic area ¹

4. Noun. A group of organisms of same or different species living together in close association. ¹

5. Noun. A collective noun for rabbits. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Colony

1. a group of emigrants living in a new land [n -NIES]

Medical Definition of Colony

1. A group of identical cells (clones) derived from a single parent cell. A clone of bacterial cells on a solid medium that is visible to the naked eye. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Colony

colonogram colonography colonometer colonopathy colonorrhagia colonorrhoea colonoscope colonoscopes colonoscopic colonoscopies

colonoscopist colonoscopists colonoscopy colons colonus colony (current term) colony-forming unit colony-stimulating factor colony collapse disorder colony counter

colony counters colony hybridisation colonyhood coloop coloops colopathy colopexostomy colopexotomy colopexy

Literary usage of Colony

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"Dominica—colony. Falkland Islands—colony with dependencies of South ... Fiji—colony. The Governor of Fiji is also Governor of the Pitcairn Islands Group. ..."

2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1903)
"In 1608 the first permanent French colony was planted in Canada; and the New World rivalry began. But as in both France and England the memory of past ..."

3. Proceedings by Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain) (1905)
"Governor of the Transvaal), William Lefevre (Cape colony), CA Lionel Legge (British Guiana), Ernest A. Lloyd (East Africa), G. Ian MacAlister (Canada), ..."

4. Proceedings by Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain) (1897)
"The colony of Lagos. THE colony OF LAGOS. IT gives me great 'pleasure to be afforded ... The subject of the Paper to-night is " The colony of Lagos," and ..."

5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1898)
"THE colony of Helix nemoralis at Lexington, Va., has attracted considerable attention on account of the large number of varieties found. ..."

6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"In 1832 there were from 16000 to 18000 Catholics in the colony of New South Wales, nearly all of them of Irish birth or descent. ..."

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