colony
- IPA[ˈkälənē]
美式
- a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, 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
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- 1. a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, 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 ethnic group living in a foreign city or country the British colony in New York 同義詞
- ▪ a place where a group of people with similar interests live together an artists' colony 同義詞
- ▪ South Asian a housing development 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.
- early name (1814–1910) for the former Cape Province
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- a British colony whose legislature and administration is controlled by the Crown, represented ...
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- a place where a group of people with leprosy live together in quarantine: this island used to be a leper colony
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- a name for Massachusetts
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- an Australian colony regarded primarily as a place of penal servitude: he served as a governor of the early convict colony
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- early name (1814–1910) for the former Cape Province
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- a British colony whose legislature and administration was controlled by the Crown, represented ...
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- a place where a group of people with leprosy live together in quarantine: this island used to be a leper colony
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- a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country and occupied ... Japanese forces overran the French colony of Indo-China
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