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colony - 4
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colony
noun
1 colony
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:
— The American colony in Paris.
synonym: settlement.
Roget 184:
location,
localization;
lodgment;
deposition,
reposition;
stowage,
package;
collocation;
packing,
lading;
establishment,
settlement,
installation;
fixation;
insertion
etc.
300.
habitat,
environment,
surroundings
(situation)
183;
circumjacence
etc.
227†.
anchorage,
mooring,
encampment.
plantation,
colony,
settlement,
cantonment;
colonization,
domestication,
situation;
habitation
etc.
(abode)
189;
cohabitation;
a local habitation and a name"
[Midsummer Night's Dream];
endenization†,
naturalization.
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Roget 188:
inhabitant;
resident,
residentiary†;
dweller,
indweller†;
addressee;
occupier,
occupant;
householder,
lodger,
inmate,
tenant,
incumbent,
sojourner,
locum tenens,
commorant†;
settler,
squatter,
backwoodsman,
colonist;
islander;
denizen,
citizen;
burgher,
oppidan†,
cockney,
cit,
townsman,
burgess;
villager;
cottager,
cottier†,
cotter;
compatriot;
backsettler†,
boarder;
hotel keeper,
innkeeper;
habitant;
paying guest;
planter.
native,
indigene,
aborigines,
autochthones†;
Englishman,
John Bull;
newcomer
etc.
(stranger)
57.
aboriginal,
American†,
Caledonian,
Cambrian,
Canadian,
Canuck [Slang],
downeaster [U.S.],
Scot,
Scotchman,
Hibernian,
Irishman,
Welshman,
Uncle Sam,
Yankee,
Brother Jonathan.
garrison,
crew;
population;
people
etc.
(mankind)
372;
colony,
settlement;
household;
mir†.
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Dutch: nederzetting, kolonie
Polish: osada
2 colony
A group of organisms of the same type living or growing together.
Dutch: kolonie
Polish: kolonia, osada
3 Colony
One of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States.
4 colony
A place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated.
5 colony
A geographical area politically controlled by a distant country.
synonym: dependency.
Dutch: kolonie
Polish: kolonia
6 colony
microbiology A group of organisms grown from a single parent cell.
Dutch: volk
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