COLONY as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • a group of animals of the same type living together
   
   Hypernyms(s) colony is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • animal group (what does animal group mean?)
2. Meaning
   • (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
   
   Hypernyms(s) colony is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • animal group (what does animal group mean?)
3. Meaning
   • 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
   
   Synonym(s)
   • settlement (what does settlement mean?)
   
   Hypernyms(s) colony is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • body (what does body mean?)
   
   Hyponym(s)
   • frontier settlement (what does frontier settlement mean?)
   • outpost (what does outpost mean?)
   • Plantation (what does Plantation mean?)
   • proprietary colony (what does proprietary colony mean?)
   • Demerara (what does Demerara mean?)
   • Gibraltar (what does Gibraltar mean?)
   • Rock of Gibraltar (what does Rock of Gibraltar mean?)
   • Calpe (what does Calpe mean?)
   • Plymouth Colony (what does Plymouth Colony mean?)
   • New Amsterdam (what does New Amsterdam mean?)
   
   Derived(s)
   • settle (what does settle mean?)
   • settle (what does settle mean?)
   • settle (what does settle mean?)
   • locate (what does locate mean?)
   • colonize (what does colonize mean?)
   • colonise (what does colonise mean?)
   • colonize (what does colonize mean?)
   • colonise (what does colonise mean?)
   • colonize (what does colonize mean?)
   • colonise (what does colonise mean?)
   • colonize (what does colonize mean?)
   • colonise (what does colonise mean?)
4. Meaning
   • a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
   
   Synonym(s)
   • dependency (what does dependency mean?)
   
   Hypernyms(s) colony is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • geographical area (what does geographical area mean?)
   • geographic area (what does geographic area mean?)
   • geographical region (what does geographical region mean?)
   • geographic region (what does geographic region mean?)
   
   Hyponym(s)
   • Crown Colony (what does Crown Colony mean?)
   • New Netherland (what does New Netherland mean?)
5. Meaning
   • one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
   
   Hypernyms(s) Colony is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • geographical area (what does geographical area mean?)
   • geographic area (what does geographic area mean?)
   • geographical region (what does geographical region mean?)
   • geographic region (what does geographic region mean?)
   
   Hyponym(s)
   • Connecticut (what does Connecticut mean?)
   • Delaware (what does Delaware mean?)
   • Georgia (what does Georgia mean?)
   • Maryland (what does Maryland mean?)
   • Massachusetts (what does Massachusetts mean?)
   • Massachusetts Bay Colony (what does Massachusetts Bay Colony mean?)
   • New Hampshire (what does New Hampshire mean?)
   • New Jersey (what does New Jersey mean?)
   • New York (what does New York mean?)
   • North Carolina (what does North Carolina mean?)
   • Pennsylvania (what does Pennsylvania mean?)
   • Rhode Island (what does Rhode Island mean?)
   • South Carolina (what does South Carolina mean?)
   • Virginia (what does Virginia mean?)