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- DictionaryCol·o·ny/ˈkälənē/
noun
- 1. a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country: "Japanese forces overran the French colony of Indo-China"
- 2. a group of people of one nationality or ethnic group living in a foreign city or country: "the British colony in New York"
A colony is a group of people who settle in a new place but keep ties to their homeland. The people who founded the United States first came to America to live as part of a British colony. Colony comes from the Latin colonia, meaning "settled land, farm."
a country or area controlled politically by a more powerful country. A colony is also a group of people with a shared interest or job who live together: an artists ’ colony. A colony is also a group of animals, insects, or plants of the same type that live together: an ant colony.
1. a. A group of emigrants or their descendants who settle in a distant territory but remain subject to or closely associated with the parent country. b. A territory thus settled. 2. A region politically controlled by a distant country; a dependency. 3. a.
Colony definition: a country or territory claimed and forcibly taken control of by a foreign power which sends its own people to settle there. See examples of COLONY used in a sentence.
Definition of colony noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. colony. noun. /ˈkɒləni/ /ˈkɑːləni/ (plural colonies) [countable] a country or an area that is governed by people from another, more powerful, country. former British colonies. the Declaration of Independence of the 13 colonies and the creation of the United States.
COLONY meaning: 1 : an area that is controlled by or belongs to a country and is usually far away from it; 2 : a group of people sent by a country to live in such a colony.
colony. noun. /ˈkɑləni/. (pl. colonies) [countable] a country or an area that is governed by people from another, more powerful, country former British colonies the Declaration of Independence of the 13 colonies and the creation of the United States.
