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COLONY definition: 1. a country or area controlled in an official, political way by a more powerful country: 2. a…. Learn more.
the American colony in Paris; an artists’ colony [countable] (Indian English) a small town set up by an employer or an organization for its workers [countable + singular or plural verb] (biology) a group of plants or animals that live together or grow in the same place. a colony of ants; a bird colony
American colonies, the 13 British colonies that were established during the 17th and early 18th centuries in what is now a part of the eastern United States. The colonies grew both geographically along the Atlantic coast and westward and numerically to 13 from the time of their founding to the American Revolution (1775–81).
Colony definition: A region politically controlled by a distant country; a dependency.
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.
How to use colony in a sentence. an area over which a foreign nation or state extends or maintains control; also : a group of people who establish residence in that area and who … See the full definition
Synonyms for COLONY: plantation, outpost, territory, camp, protectorate, habitation, diaspora, dependency, possession, post
