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Meaning of "semicolony" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SEMICOLONY

semicolony  [ˌsemɪˈkɒlənɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SEMICOLONY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Semicolony 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 SEMICOLONY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Semi-colony

A semi-colony is, in Marxist theory, a country which is officially an independent and sovereign nation, but which is in reality very much dependent and dominated by another country. This domination could take different forms - ▪ economic, ▪ political, ▪ military ▪ cultural/ideological. ▪ technological. ▪ demographic: the immigration into the semi-colony of large numbers of settlers from the imperialist countries which dominate the semi-colony. The term semi-colony is often used interchangeably with "neo-colony". Some semi-colonies never had much of a colonial administration before they became formally sovereign states, but most of them did. Some semi-colonies were "settler colonies" attracting large numbers of foreign immigrants, while in other semi-colonies, the indigenous population always remained the vast majority.

Definition of semicolony in the English dictionary

The definition of semicolony in the dictionary is a country which is partly colonial or which is officially independent but which in fact depends on or is dominated by another country.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SEMICOLONY


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

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SEMICOLONY

semicircularly
semicirque
semicivilised
semicivilized
semiclassic
semiclassical
semicolon
semicolonial
semicolonialism
semicoma
semicomatose
semicommercial
semiconducting
semiconduction
semiconductor
semiconductor diode
semiconscious
semiconsciously
semiconsciousness
semiconsonant

WORDS THAT END LIKE SEMICOLONY

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 semicolony in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «semicolony» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SEMICOLONY

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

Translator English - Chinese

半殖民地
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

semicolonia
570 millions of speakers

English

semicolony
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

semicolony
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

semicolony
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

полуколонией
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

semicolony
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

semicolony
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

semicolony
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Semifolonya
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

semicolony
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

semicolony
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

semicolony
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Semicolony
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

semicolony
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

semicolony
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अर्धविराम
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

semicolony
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

semicolony
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

semicolony
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

напівколонією
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

semicolony
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

semicolony
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

semicolony
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

semicolony
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

halvkoloni
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of semicolony

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SEMICOLONY»

The term «semicolony» is used very little and occupies the 187.657 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SEMICOLONY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «semicolony» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «semicolony» 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 semicolony

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SEMICOLONY»

Discover the use of semicolony in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to semicolony and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Mao's Road to Power: From the Jinggangshan to the ...
China is a semicolony, and her ruler is international imperialism. Because international imperialism is not united, the warlord government under its protection is naturally coming apart. Therefore the relative tranquillity of China's current political ...
Zedong Mao, Stuart Reynolds Schram, Nancy Jane Hodes, 1992
2
The Growth of African Literature: Twenty-five Years After ...
Whether it be diacritical marking, the printed semicolon which concludes the pun on semicolony, or the thematic transition from dumb to drum achieved phonetically by the increment of a consonant, the poetry of the first trilogy results from a ...
Edris Makward, Thelma Ravell-Pinto, Aliko Songolo, 1998
3
Chinese Discourses on the Peasant, 1900-1949
... as either bourgeoisie or proletariat.53 In another important essay written in September 1926, Mao argued that China was “an economically backward semicolony” where “the feudal-patriarchal class (the landlord class) in the villages” formed ...
Xiaorong Han, 2012
4
The Ambiguous Allure of the West: Traces of the Colonial in ...
Elaborated in Thai in the late 1940s by Udom Srisuwan ([1950] 1979, see also Reynolds and Hong [1983], Kasian [2001]) , analysis of Siam/Thailand as a semicolony was part of official CPT ideology until the movement's collapse in the 1980s ...
Rachel V. Harrison, Peter a. Jackson, 2010
5
The Oxford Companion to American Law
The impact in the twenty-first century of the civil law tradition may be greater, even if unacknowledged, than in earlier centuries. Puerto Rico, an American semicolony since it was acquired from Spain after the 1898 Spanish—American War, ...
Kermit L. Hall, David S. Clark, 2002
6
Korea and Christianity
residing abroad concluded the Ulsa Treaty, and Korea became relegated to the status of a semicolony. Christians, as well as Korean nationalists (who advocated restructuring by means of an internal civil revolution), could not accept an ...
Chai-Shin Yu, 1996
7
The Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Political, ...
It was largely the corrupt practices of the sultan and the palace bureaucracy in the latter phase of the Ottomans' centuries-long imperial history that transformed the empire into a semicolony of the expanding European powers. The dominant ...
Spencer C. Tucker, Priscilla Roberts, 2008
8
Mao's Road to Power - Revolutionary Writings, 1912-1949: The ...
Imperialism occupies the principal position in the contradiction in which China has been reduced to a semicolony , it oppresses the Chinese people, and China has been changed from an independent country into a semicolonial one. But this  ...
Stuart R. Schram, 1992
9
Mao's Road to Power: The pre-Marxist period, 1912-1920
Before a semicolony suffered from imperialist oppression, its principal contradiction was the contradiction between the feudal or semifeudal system and the broad masses of the people. All other contradictions are determined by this principal ...
Zedong Mao, Stuart Reynolds Schram, Nancy Jane Hodes, 1992
10
An ideology in power: reflections on the Russian revolution
The notion, at least as applied to Russia, is "Leninist" rather than Lenin's, for he regarded Russia as an imperialist power, not a semicolony, and was convinced of Russia's responsibility for the outbreak of the war, which she entered for her ...
Bertram David Wolfe, 1969

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SEMICOLONY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term semicolony is used in the context of the following news items.
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Thoughts From Lee Kuan Yew In FORBES
... beat China like a Third World, aid-receiving country and chastise her and admonish her as if she were a colony or semicolony in Africa or in the South Pacific? «Forbes, Mar 15»

REFERENCE
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