English Explanatory Dictionary

colony

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A geographical area under the remote control of a country; especially to extract resources or exploit labor from that area.
  2. A group of people who settle an area and maintain ties to their country of origin.
  3. A group of people with similar interests, occupations, or characteristics, living in a particular area; the area such people occupy.
  4. A group of organisms of same or different species living together in close association.
  5. An apartment complex or neighborhood.
  6. A local group of Beaver Scouts.
  7. A potential new chapter of a fraternity or sorority awaiting official recognition from their headquarters.
verb
  1. To colonize.
name
  1. A place in the United States:
  2. A town in Cullman County, Arkansas.
  3. A township in Adams County, Iowa.
  4. A township in Delaware County, Iowa.
  5. A minor city in Anderson County, Kansas.
  6. A former township in Greeley County, Kansas.
  7. A neighbourhood in south-west Lexington, Kentucky.
  8. An unincorporated community and inactive township in Knox County, Missouri.
  9. A town in Washita County, Oklahoma.

Pronunciation

/ˈkɒl.ə.ni/ /ˈkɔlənɪj/ /ˈkɔl.ə.ni/ /ˈkɑ.lə.ni/ en-us-colony.ogg /ˈkɔlɵni/ /kɵˈloni/

Word forms

colony colonies colonying colonied

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁-e-ti Proto-Italic *kʷelō Latin colō Latin colōnus Latin colōniader. Middle English colane English colony From Middle English colane, colonye, from Latin colōnia (“colony”), from colōnus (“farmer; colonist”), from colō (“till, cultivate, worship”), from earlier *quelō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”). Doublet of Cologne, Colonia, and Köln.

Related words

Cologne Crown colony cult culture metropole

Derived words

artificial bee colony autocolony bird colony Cape Colony Colony of Virginia crown colony Delft Colony freedom colony leper colony Lost Colony lunar colony macrocolony megacolony Mexican Colony microcolony monocolony neo-colony nudist colony O'Neill colony Orange River Colony paleocolony penal colony pseudocolony Roanoke Colony rolony semi-colony space colony subcolony supercolony coloner colonial colonialism coloniarch colonigenic colonise colonize colonist colony collapse disorder colony counter colony-forming unit colonyhood colony-stimulating factor granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor intercolony intracolony Jewish colony polony
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