colony
B2Meanings
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noun
a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated
a nudist colony
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noun
A geographical area under the remote control of a country; especially to extract resources or exploit labor from that area.
Much of the eastern United States was formerly a British colony; other areas were French, Spanish, Dutch, or Swedish colonies.
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noun
A group of people who settle an area and maintain ties to their country of origin.
a colony of British expats in Spain
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noun
A group of people with similar interests, occupations, or characteristics, living in a particular area; the area such people occupy.
a nudist colony; the statue was put up right in the middle of the artist colony
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noun
A group of organisms of same or different species living together in close association.
ant colony; coral colony
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noun
An apartment complex or neighborhood.
Our colony is quite small, but each apartment is large.
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noun
A potential new chapter of a fraternity or sorority awaiting official recognition from their headquarters.
That weekend in 2013, fraternity members from Baruch, a commuter school in Manhattan whose Pi Delta Psi colony was only about three years old, gathered in a large rental house in Tunkhannock Township, Pa. Early on a frigid morning, Mr. Deng followed the other pledges in putting on a blindfold and backpack.
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verb
To colonize.
Such black Attendants Colonied thy Cell, / But for thy Preſence, Car’sbrook had been Hell.
Etymology
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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