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Colony   /kˈɑləni/   Listen
noun
Colony  n.  (pl. colonies)  
1.
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. "The first settlers of New England were the best of Englishmen, well educated, devout Christians, and zealous lovers of liberty. There was never a colony formed of better materials."
2.
The district or country colonized; a settlement.
3.
A territory subject to the ruling governmental authority of another country and not a part of the ruling country.
4.
A company of persons from the same country sojourning in a foreign city or land; as, the American colony in Paris.
5.
(Nat. Hist.) A number of animals or plants living or growing together, beyond their usual range.
6.
(Bot.) A cell family or group of common origin, mostly of unicellular organisms, esp. among the lower algae. They may adhere in chains or groups, or be held together by a gelatinous envelope.
7.
(Zool.) A cluster or aggregation of zooids of any compound animal, as in the corals, hydroids, certain tunicates, etc.
8.
(Zool.) A community of social insects, as ants, bees, etc.
9.
(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.






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"Colony" Quotes from Famous Books



... is awfully nice of the Blake girls to take part," said Cora, "for in this little summer colony ...
— The Motor Girls On Cedar Lake - The Hermit of Fern Island • Margaret Penrose

... Pennsylvania Railroad, and about twenty-four miles from New York. Here on some rising ground he built a wooden tenement, two stories high, and furnished it as a workshop and laboratory. His own residence and the cottages of his servants completed the little colony. ...
— Heroes of the Telegraph • J. Munro

... is not an exception to the general rule; for M. de Penhouet, the greatest antiquarian, perhaps, in Celtic lore in Brittany, has proved that the Veneti of Western Gaul were not really Celts, but rather a colony of Carthaginians, the only one probably remaining, in the time of Caesar, of those once numerous foreign colonies of the old enemies ...
— Irish Race in the Past and the Present • Aug. J. Thebaud

... bricks without straw, when it came to house decoration. They had always moved from post to pillar and Dan to Beersheba, and had always, inside of a week, had the prettiest and most delightful habitation in the naval colony where they found themselves. Beulah itself, as well as all the surrounding country, had looked upon the golden hayfield paper and scorned it as ugly and countrified; never suspecting that, in its day, it had been made ...
— Mother Carey's Chickens • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... the Mississippi, or the Rockies, to go in groups, and take with them "the moral atmosphere of their old homes." He advocated the opening of a school the first week and a Sunday school the first Sunday following the arrival of such a colony at its destination. Even a bare, new home, cramped and poor, he suggested, might be to them the type of a better one in more prosperous years, and of the Home beyond, so that, from the beginning, "on Sabbath morning, swelling upward ...
— Charles Carleton Coffin - War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman • William Elliot Griffis


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