Definitions for Colony
ˈkɒl ə nicolony

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.9 / 9 votes

1. colony, settlementnoun

   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"

2. colonynoun

   a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together

3. Colonynoun

   one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States

4. colonynoun

   a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated

   "a nudist colony"; "an artists' colony"

5. colony, dependencynoun

   a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country

6. colonynoun

   (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell

GCIDERate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. Colonynoun

   a territory subject to the ruling governmental authority of another country and not a part of the ruling country.

2. Colonynoun

   (Bot.) A cell family or group of common origin, mostly of unicellular organisms, esp. among the lower alg

3. Colonynoun

   (Microbiology) a group of microorganisms originating as the descendents of one individual cell, growing on a gelled growth medium, as of gelatin or agar; especially, such a group that has grown to a sufficient number to be visible to the naked eye.

WiktionaryRate this definition:2.0 / 2 votes

1. colonynoun

   A settlement of emigrants who move to a new place, but remain culturally tied to their original place

2. colonynoun

   Region or governmental unit created by another country and generally ruled by another country.

3. colonynoun

   A group of people with the same interests or ethnic origin concentrated in a particular geographic area

4. colonynoun

   A group of organisms of same or different species living together in close association.

5. colonynoun

   A collective noun for rabbits.

6. Etymology: From colonia, from colonus, from colo, from earlier *, from kʷel-.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. COLONYnoun

   Etymology: colonia, Latin.

   1. A body of people drawn from the mother-country to inhabit some distant place.

   To these new inhabitants and colonies he gave the same law under which they were born and bred. Edmund Spenser, on Ireland.

   Rooting out these two rebellious septs, he placed English colonies in their rooms. John Davies, on Ireland.

   Osiris, or the Bacchus of the ancients, is reported to have civilized the Indians, planting colonies and building cities. John Arbuthnot, on Coins.

   2. The country planted; a plantation.

   The rising city, which from far you see,
   Is Carthage; and a Trojan colony. John Dryden, Virg. Æn.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. colony

   A colony is a territory or group of people living in one place, usually under the control or authority of a distant country or entity. This may involve colonization in terms of settlement and development of new areas, or the establishment of a new group with common interests or shared traits. The term can also extend to non-human organisms, where a Colony refers to a group living and functioning together, such as ants or birds.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 2 votes

1. Colonynoun

   a company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent state; as, the British colonies in America

2. Colonynoun

   the district or country colonized; a settlement

3. Colonynoun

   a company of persons from the same country sojourning in a foreign city or land; as, the American colony in Paris

4. Colonynoun

   a number of animals or plants living or growing together, beyond their usual range

5. Etymology: [L. colonia, fr. colonus farmer, fr. colere to cultivate, dwell: cf. F. colonie. Cf. Culture.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Colony

   In politics and history, a colony is a territory under the immediate political control of a state. For colonies in antiquity, city-states would often found their own colonies. Some colonies were historically countries, while others were territories without definite statehood from their inception. The metropolitan state is the state that owns the colony. In Ancient Greece, the city that founded a colony was called the metropolis. Mother country is a reference to the metropolitan state from the point of view of citizens who live in its colony. There is a United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories. Unlike a puppet state or satellite state, a colony has no independent international representation, and its top-level administration is under direct control of the metropolitan state. The term informal colony is used by some historians to refer to a country under the de facto control of another state, although this term is often contentious.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. Colony

   kol′on-i, n. a name somewhat vaguely applied to the foreign dependencies of a state (a Roman colony was a military settlement planted in subject territory; a Greek colony consisted of a band of emigrants impelled to seek a new home, and connected with their mother-city by no stronger tie than that of sentiment): a body of persons who form a fixed settlement in another country: the settlement so formed: the place they inhabit.—adj. Colōn′ial, pertaining to a colony.—n. an inhabitant of a colony, a colonist.—ns. Colōn′ialism, a trait of colonial life or speech; Colonisā′tion, act or practice of colonising: state of being colonised.—v.t. Col′onise, to plant or establish a colony in: to form into a colony.—v.i. to settle.—n. Col′onist, an inhabitant of a colony.—Colonial animals, organisms which cannot be fairly regarded as unities, but consist of numerous individuals united in a common life; Colonial system, the theory that the settlements abroad were to be treated as proprietary domains exploited for the benefit of the mother-country. [L. colonia—colonus, a husbandman—colĕre, to till.]

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1. colony

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Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. COLONY

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Colony is ranked #58337 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Colony surname appeared 348 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Colony.
   
   94.8% or 330 total occurrences were White.
   1.7% or 6 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1.7% or 6 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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1. • United States
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British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Colony' in Nouns Frequency: #1770

Usage in printed sourcesFrom: 

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How to pronounce Colony?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Colony in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Colony in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Colony in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Colony in a Sentence

1. James Nieh:

   This method attracts males, but if they've already mated, the females are free to fly off and start a new colony.

2. Rogelio Zedillo:

   I think its a pity that they have closed what could have been a model prison, they were self-supporting, they (inmates) were producing. They grew vegetables. They had cattle, goats, pigs. There was a fish farm and a salt works ... the problem was political, the authorities decided not to continue as a penal colony, and so little by little it fell apart.

3. Efraim Zuroff:

   Many leading Nazis went to Argentina Josef Mengel, Adolf Eichmann, Josef Schwamberger so this finding is possible, but the bottom line is that it never reached fruition, this secret colony of Nazis.

4. Leonid Volkov:

   Alexey Navalny is now in the colony, Alexey Navalny life hanging on a thread, alexey Navalny has been on a hunger strike for several weeks now, demanding medical attention. Alexey Navalny condition is critical, and we do not know how much longer Alexey Navalny can hold out. But it is clear that we do not have time.

5. James Horn:

   They saw some of the most challenging times for Virginia's history and helped save the colony and ultimately helped save English America.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Colony
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=Colony
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Colony
4. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Colony
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Colony
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Colony
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Colony
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
10. ^ Usage in printed sources
    https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Colony