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Meaning of "colony" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD COLONY

From Latin colōnia, from colere to cultivate, inhabit.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF COLONY

colony  [ˈkɒlənɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COLONY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Colony is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES COLONY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

colony

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. The metropolitan state is the state that owns the colony. In Ancient Greece, the city that founded a colony was called the metropolis. Mother country is a reference to the metropolitan state from the point of view of citizens who live in its colony. There is a United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories. Unlike a puppet state or satellite state, a colony has no independent international representation, and its top-level administration is under direct control of the metropolitan state. The term informal colony is used by some historians to refer to a country under the de facto control of another state, although this term is often contentious.

Definition of colony in the English dictionary

The first definition of colony in the dictionary is a body of people who settle in a country distant from their homeland but maintain ties with it. Other definition of colony is the community formed by such settlers. Colony is also a subject territory occupied by a settlement from the ruling state.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COLONY


accompany
əˈkʌmpənɪ
Albany
ˈɔːlbənɪ
Anthony
ˈæntənɪ
Antony
ˈæntənɪ
balcony
ˈbælkənɪ
Bethany
ˈbɛθənɪ
Brittany
ˈbrɪtənɪ
ceremony
ˈsɛrɪmənɪ
company
ˈkʌmpənɪ
ebony
ˈɛbənɪ
felony
ˈfɛlənɪ
Germany
ˈdʒɜːmənɪ
harmony
ˈhɑːmənɪ
miscellany
mɪˈsɛlənɪ
semicolony
ˌsemɪˈkɒlənɪ
subcolony
ˈsʌbˌkɒlənɪ
symphony
ˈsɪmfənɪ
testimony
ˈtɛstɪmənɪ
tiffany
ˈtɪfənɪ
villainy
ˈvɪlənɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COLONY

colonisation
colonisationist
colonise
coloniser
colonist
colonitis
colonizable
colonization
colonizationist
colonize
colonized
colonizer
colonnade
colonnaded
colonoscope
colonoscopy
colons
Colonsay
colonus
colony-stimulating factor

WORDS THAT END LIKE COLONY

agony
bony
Cape Colony
charter colony
crown colony
irony
leper colony
matrimony
nudist colony
opening ceremony
penal colony
peony
phony
Plymouth Colony
polony
pony
proprietary colony
stony
telephony
tony

Synonyms and antonyms of colony in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «COLONY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «colony» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of colony

Translation of «colony» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COLONY

Find out the translation of colony to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of colony from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «colony» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

殖民地
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

colonia
570 millions of speakers

English

colony
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कॉलोनी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مستعمرة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

колония
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

colônia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

উপনিবেশ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

colonie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Koloni
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kolonie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

植民地
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

식민지
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Koloni
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thuộc địa
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

காலனி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कॉलनी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

koloni
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

colonia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kolonia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

колонія
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

colonie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αποικία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kolonie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

koloni
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

koloni
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of colony

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COLONY»

The term «colony» is very widely used and occupies the 10.911 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COLONY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «colony» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «colony» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about colony

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10 QUOTES WITH «COLONY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word colony.
1
Buzz Aldrin
Mars is far more attractive as an outpost colony for earthlings than the moon is.
2
Imtiaz Ali
I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my school friends that I was a stud in my colony and to my colony friends that I was a stud in the school cricket and football teams, though I was in no team.
3
Hugo Chavez
Venezuela is a free country, and we will not be blackmailed by anyone. We will not accept being told what to do over Iran; we will not accept being anyone's colony.
4
Albert Claude
Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself.
5
Alfred Doblin
The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.
6
Blake Edwards
Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony.
7
Oriana Fallaci
Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense.
8
Zach Galifianakis
I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
9
Shreya Ghoshal
Since I stayed in a colony where either one was an engineer or a scientist, everybody thought I would be a scientist. This was the expectation everybody had apart from my parents. Honestly, I, too, wanted to be a scientist. I think it was the way Dad would explain us scientific theories and concepts that made the subject more intriguing.
10
Luke Harding
By August 2008, we had left Voikovskaya and moved into a wooden dacha in the artists' colony of Sokol in north-west Moscow. The house was a haven amid the madness of the city: lily of the valley grew near our front gate, Virginia creeper decked the green picket fence.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COLONY»

Discover the use of colony in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to colony and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Colony
This brilliant novel, rich with emotion, is filled with appealing, intense, and indomitable characters.
Anne Rivers Siddons, 2009
2
Ant Colony Optimization
An overview of the rapidly growing field of ant colony optimization that describes theoretical findings, the major algorithms, and current applications.
Marco Dorigo, Thomas Stützle, 2004
3
Colony
Thirty years ago a secret army research facility was destroyed - overrun by millions of ants.
Jan Henderson, 2009
4
The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai
Carefully researched and masterfully told, The Colony is a searing tale of individual bravery and extraordinary survival, and stands as a testament to the power of faith, compassion, and the human spirit.
John Tayman, 2010
5
Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony
After 400 years, America's oldest mystery--the Lost Colony--is solved in this remarkable & gripping work of historical detection--spinning a tale of intrigue, sabotage, & murder.
Lee Miller, 2000
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Colony: Strange Origins of One of the Earliest Modern ...
Reg Hamilton answers these questions with an amusing history of the curious institutions of unreconstructed Dover before modern democracy, in the period 1780-1835, and of the spirited and occasionally shameful conduct of colonists far from ...
Reg Hamilton, 2010
7
Colony
A landmark among contemporary science fiction novels follows the struggle of one extraordinary human--the super-intelligent, physically perfect product of a celestial utopia that cast him into exile--to save Earth from an apocalypse.
Ben Bova, 1999
8
Colony
When the Mayor of Sunnydale unknowingly invites a demon antlike queen to instill self-esteem in the students of Sunnydale High School, Buffy must try to stop the intruder from fulfilling her plan of building a colony of aggressive followers ...
Laura J. Burns, Melinda Metz, Joss Whedon, 2005
9
Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and ...
Presenting case studies on the Americas, Australia, Africa, Asia, the Ottoman Empire, Imperial Russia, and the Nazi “Third Reich,” leading authorities examine the colonial dimension of the genocide concept as well as the imperial ...
A. Dirk Moses, 2008
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Lost Colony: The Untold Story of China's First Great Victory ...
While Lost Colony shows that the Dutch did indeed possess a technological edge thanks to the Renaissance fort and the broadside sailing ship, that edge was neutralized by the formidable Chinese military leadership.
Tonio Andrade, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COLONY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term colony is used in the context of the following news items.
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Colony, state or independence: Puerto Rico's status anxiety adds to …
The word “colony” conjures images of conquistadors and pilgrims, slavery .... refer to the territory as a “country”, and occasionally as a “colony”. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
Man dies in blaze on Colony Street in Ansonia
Comments. ANSONIA >> Ansonia police report that a fire at 96 Colony St. has taken the life of an unidentified man. At approximately 5:20 p.m., ... «New Haven Register, Jul 15»
3
51 days away: The Colony's 'pinch me' moment that got football …
The Colony High's Tyrone Brooks (22) holds a sledge hammer high, as the team prepares to enter the field for a high school football playoff ... «Dallas Morning News, Jul 15»
4
Large Gulf bird colony suddenly a 'dead zone'
"This is where the largest bird colony on the Gulf Coast of Florida used to be." For decades, Seahorse Key has been a protected way station for ... «WTSP 10 News, Jul 15»
5
Israel Planning To Expand French Hill Colony In Occupied Jerusalem
The Regional Planning and Construction Committee of the Jerusalem City Council approved, Tuesday, a plan to expand the French Hill colony ... «International Middle East Media Center, Jul 15»
6
New Hutterite colony planned in Spink County
Spink County officials approved two special permits Tuesday, clearing the way for the development of a new Hutterite colony southwest of ... «AberdeenNews.com, Jul 15»
7
The Colony Palms Is the Next Palm Springs Hotel to Get a Facelift
As if there wasn't already enough upheaval in the wonderful world of Palm Springs, here comes more big news: the Colony Palms has been ... «HotelChatter, Jul 15»
8
Colony Capital Upgraded by Zacks to Buy (CLNY)
Colony Capital Inc logo Zacks upgraded shares of Colony Capital (NASDAQ:CLNY) from a hold rating to a buy rating in a report issued on ... «Dakota Financial News, Jul 15»
9
Mikalai Dziadok's father: The colony administration tries to suppress …
Without explaining the political prisoner Mikalai Dziadok is placed in a Ward-type Room (WTR) and denied a meeting with lawyer. «Charter 97, Jul 15»
10
10 questions with Sea Colony Tennis's Thomas Johnston
With thousands coming to Sea Colony to take part in its tennis programming each summer, this is the start of Thomas Johnston's busiest time of ... «The News Journal, Jul 15»

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