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Word: Colony
Speech Type: Noun
late Middle English (denoting a settlement formed mainly of retired soldiers, acting as a garrison in newly conquered territory in the Roman Empire): from Latin colonia ‘settlement, farm’, from colonus ‘settler, farmer’, from colere ‘cultivate’
ˈkɒləni
a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country
Short Definition:country under political control of another country
Examples:- Japanese forces overran the French colony of Indo-China
a group of people of one nationality or race living in a foreign place
Short Definition:group of one nationality living in foreign place
Examples:- the British colony in New York
a community of animals or plants of one kind living close together or forming a physically connected structure
Short Definition:community of animals or plants living together
Examples:- a colony of seals
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