colonia
Meanings
noun
- a slum or shantytown near the US-Mexican border, generally without modern infrastructure
name
- An urban area of Yap, Federated States of Micronesia.
- A neighbourhood, The Colonia or La Colonia, in Oxnard, Ventura County, California, United States.
- An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.
- A department of Uruguay.
- Ellipsis of Colonia del Sacramento: a city, the capital of Colonia department, in south-western Uruguay.
Word forms
Etymology
From Mexican Spanish colonia.
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