colony

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A country or area controlled by another, more powerful country.

   Much of the region was once a British colony.

2. 2
   noun

   A group of animals or plants of the same kind living together.

   The scientists studied a colony of ants.

3. 3
   noun

   A group of people with the same background or interests living in one area.

   There is a large colony of British expats in Spain.

Common collocations

• proprietary colony Adjective + noun

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁-e-ti Proto-Italic *kʷelō Latin colō Latin colōnus Latin colōniader. Middle English colane English colony From Middle English colane, colonye, from Latin colōnia (“colony”), from colōnus (“farmer; colonist”), from colō (“till, cultivate, worship”), from earlier *quelō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”). Doublet of Cologne, Colonia, and Köln.

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