colony
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ə noun, plural col·o·nies.
1.
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.
2.
the country or district settled or colonized: Many Western nations are former European colonies.
3.
any people or territory separated from but subject to a ruling power.
4.
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.
5.
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.
6.
any group of individuals having similar interests, occupations, etc., usually living in a particular locality; community: a colony of artists.
7.
the district, quarter, or dwellings inhabited by any such number or group: The Greek island is now an artists' colony.
8.
an aggregation of bacteria growing together as the descendants of a single cell.
9.
Ecology. a group of organisms of the same kind living or growing in close association.
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
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colony (ˈkɒlənɪ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n , pl -nies | |
| 1. | a body of people who settle in a country distant from their homeland but maintain ties with it |
| 2. | the community formed by such settlers |
| 3. | a subject territory occupied by a settlement from the ruling state |
| 4. | a. a community of people who form a national, racial, or cultural minority: an artists' colony; the American colony in London |
| b. the area itself | |
| 5. | zoology |
| a. a group of the same type of animal or plant living or growing together, esp in large numbers | |
| b. an interconnected group of polyps of a colonial organism | |
| 6. | bacteriol a group of bacteria, fungi, etc, derived from one or a few spores, esp when grown on a culture medium |
| [C16: from Latin colōnia, from colere to cultivate, inhabit] | |
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Word Origin & History
colony
late 14c., "ancient Roman settlement outside Italy," from L. colonia "settled land, farm, landed estate," from colonus "husbandman, tenant farmer, settler in new land," from colere "to inhabit, cultivate, frequent, practice, tend, guard, respect," from PIE base *kwel- "move around" (source of L. -cola
"inhabitant;" see cycle). Also used by the Romans to translate Gk. apoikia "people from home." Modern application dates from 1540s.
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Medical Dictionary
colony col·o·ny (kŏl'ə-nē)
n.
A discrete group of organisms, such as a group of cells growing on a solid nutrient surface.
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Science Dictionary
| colony (kŏl'ə-nē) Pronunciation Key
A group of the same kind of animals, plants, or one-celled organisms living or growing together. Organisms live in colonies for their mutual benefit, and especially their protection. Multicellular organisms may have evolved out of colonies of unicellular organisms. |
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Easton
Bible Dictionary
Colony definition
The city of Philippi was a Roman colony (Acts 16:12), i.e., a military settlement of Roman soldiers and citizens, planted there to keep in subjection a newly-conquered district. A colony was Rome in miniature, under Roman municipal law, but governed by military officers (praetors and lictors), not by proconsuls. It had an independent internal government, the jus Italicum; i.e., the privileges of Italian citizens.
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The colony cannot survive without a fertile queen laying eggs to renew the population.
She tells him of the impending announcement that he is to be the governor of the colony.
Each colony provided for its own defenses through the use of local militia.
It took many years for the red river colony to develop under hbc rule.
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