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colonies
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colony
n.
group of people who have settled in a new country and who are still subject to the mother country; country or location subject to the mother country; commune, group of people which are joined by a shared interest and often live together; group of animals or plants which live together; group of insects which live together; group of ants which lives in a large community
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Colony
In politics and history, a colony is a territory under the immediate political control of a state, distinct from the home territory of the sovereign. For colonies in antiquity, city-states would often found their own colonies. Some colonies were historically countries, while others were territories without definite statehood from their inception.
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colony
Noun
1. 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
(synonym) settlement
(hypernym) body
(hyponym) frontier settlement, outpost
(member-meronym) colonial
(derivation) colonize, colonise
2. a group of animals of the same type living together
(hypernym) animal group
3. a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
(synonym) dependency
(hypernym) geographical area, geographic area, geographical region, geographic region
(hyponym) Crown Colony
4. (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
(hypernym) animal group
(classification) microbiology
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colonie
nf.
colony, habitation, settlement
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colony
n.
kolonie
