搜尋結果
colony
- IPA[ˈkɒləni]
英式
- a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country；a group of people living in a colony, consisting of the original settlers and their descendants and successors
noun: colony, plural noun: colonies
- 釋義
名詞
- 1. a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country Japanese forces overran the French colony of Indo-China 同義詞
- ▪ a group of people living in a colony, consisting of the original settlers and their descendants and successors the colony looked forward to fifty or more years of autonomy
- ▪ all the foreign countries or areas formerly under British political control many poachers were exiled to the colonies
- ▪ British another term for Thirteen Colonies
- 2. a group of people of one nationality or race living in a foreign place the British colony in New York 同義詞
- ▪ a place where a group of people with the same occupation or interest live together a nudist colony 同義詞
- ▪ South Asian a housing estate or residential community, especially one originally constructed by an employer for its workers a large housing colony has already been built one of Jaipur's largest residential colonies
- 3. a community of animals or plants of one kind living close together or forming a physically connected structure a colony of seals
- ▪ a group of fungi or bacteria grown from a single spore or cell on a culture medium.
