Colony

What do we mean by colony?

A group of emigrants or their descendants who settle in a distant territory but remain subject to or closely associated with the parent country. noun

A territory thus settled. noun

A region politically controlled by a distant country; a dependency. noun

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

The area occupied by such a group. noun

The British colonies that became the original 13 states of the United States. noun

A group of people who have been institutionalized in a relatively remote area. noun

A group of the same kind of animals, plants, or one-celled organisms living or growing together. noun

A visible growth of microorganisms, usually in a solid or semisolid nutrient medium. noun

A company or body of people who migrate from their native country or home to a new province, country, or district, to cultivate and inhabit it, but remain subject to or intimately connected with the parent state; also, the descendants of such settlers so long as the connection with the mother country is retained. noun

The country or district planted or colonized. noun

A number of persons of a particular nation, taken collectively, residing temporarily or indefinitely in a foreign city or country: as, the American colony in Paris. noun

A number of animals or plants living or growing colonially. noun

To colonize.

A circumscribed aggregation of bacteria of the same species in artificial culture. noun

In sociology, a group of individuals of like natures or having a common interest, living by themselves as a self-sufficient social organization. noun

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. noun

The district or country colonized; a settlement. noun

A governmental unit created on land of another country owned by colonists from a country.

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

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

An apartment complex or neighborhood.

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

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

A local group of Beaver Scouts.

Words that are spelled similarly to colony:
colony, colon, colons, polony, colone, coloni, coony, colona, colono, colory.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word colony:
netherland, natal, convicts, colonies, protectorate, ants, ant, nest, nests, bees, settlers, providence, plymouth, colonial, queens, cape, slaves, haven, connecticut, settlement, governor, dutch, settlements, pairs, massachusetts, breeding, settled, independence, virginia, portuguese, nova, slave, eggs.

Words that rhyme with colony:
polony, fall honey, fallen he, nuala ni, stalin he.

Adjectives that are often used to describe colony:
new, british, french, whole, english, little, former, small, penal, american, roman, large, spanish, german, dutch, greek, entire, single, portuguese, separate, italian, infant, royal, permanent, agricultural, foreign, ant, european, largest, russian, japanese, flourishing, african, latin, distant, ancient, prosperous, swedish, phoenician, oldest, independent, southern, isolated, proprietary, northern, successful, nudist, bacterial, australian, thriving, tiny, irish, belgian, puritan, neighbouring, neighboring, lost, macrophage, danish, huguenot, athenian, remote, corinthian, semi, granulocyte, west.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective colony:
formation, stimulating, morphology, forming, founding, form, color, surface, the, life, flabellate, law, care, house, appearance, defense, colour, shape, ashanti, strategies, technique, club, owning, building, margin, counts, paid, land, reverse, ontogeny, protectorate, based, legends, odor, style, count, fidelity, recognition, characteristics, compact, name.

Consonant match to colony:
coloner, calluna, colonna, kalina, kelowna, colonie, colina, coline, colino, calhoun a, calhoun high, calhoun knew, calhoun now, calhoun who, calin a, call inner, cologne a, cologne he.

Words that sound like colony:
colony, colonie, colonies, colone, colons, kalani, collen, coline, coloni, calame, cauline, calami, calluna, collins, collin, colins, kalena, coulon, collinge, callens, column, colon, cullen, colleen, columns, clooney, coolant, colonize, calzone, caliente, killen, calumny, kellen, collum, callen, callan, clowney, colum, colonic, kelowna, kalen, colonnade, kalina, collumn, keelan, kellan, colen, colonise, kalan, kaylan, colan, calen, cullens, cushiony, calan, colona, cottony, cluny, colomb, kelan, colina, kalima, kolami, colonna, calaway, klone, kailan, kelen, coolen, colleens, keilen, carlini, callant, columna, collina, calzoni, colino, columned, colono, kiliwi, call in, kaolin, call-in, galant, golen, gallina, galeano, galeana, callin, clingy, coleen, cailin, calin, call me, clemmie, call on me, clemmy, caelin, call on, call away.