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Definitions for Colonies

[1] a group of people who leave their native country to form in a new land a settlement subject to, or connected with, the parent nation.
[2] the country or district settled or colonized: Many Western nations are former European colonies.
[3] any people or territory separated from but subject to a ruling power.
[4] the Colonies, those British colonies that formed the original 13 states of the United States: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
[5] a number of people coming from the same country, or speaking the same language, residing in a foreign country or city, or a particular section of it; enclave: the Polish colony in Israel; the American colony in Paris.
[6] any group of individuals having similar interests, occupations, etc., usually living in a particular locality; community: a colony of artists.
[7] the district, quarter, or dwellings inhabited by any such number or group: The Greek island is now an artists' colony.
[8] an aggregation of bacteria growing together as the descendants of a single cell.
[9] Ecology . a group of organisms of the same kind living or growing in close association.
[10] British the subject territories formerly in the British Empire
[11] US history the 13 states forming the original United States of America when they declared their independence (1776). These were Connecticut, North and South Carolina, Delaware, Georgia, New Hampshire, New York, Maryland, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, and New Jersey
[12] a body of people who settle in a country distant from their homeland but maintain ties with it
[13] the community formed by such settlers
[14] a subject territory occupied by a settlement from the ruling state
[15] a community of people who form a national, racial, or cultural minority an artists' colony ; the American colony in London the area itself
[16] zoology a group of the same type of animal or plant living or growing together, esp in large numbers an interconnected group of polyps of a colonial organism
[17] bacteriol a group of bacteria, fungi, etc, derived from one or a few spores, esp when grown on a culture medium

Words related to Colonies

colonyprovince, territory, outpost, protectorate, possession, satellite, swarm, clearing, dependency, dominion, mandate, offshoot, settlement, antecedents

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Origin of Colonies

y1350–1400; Middle English colonie (< Middle French ) < Latin colōnia, equivalent to colōn(us ) colonus + -ia -y3

Other words from Colonies

sem·i·col·o·ny , noun, plural sem·i·col·o·nies.
sub·col·o·ny , noun, plural sub·col·o·nies.

Word origin for Colonies

yC16: from Latin colōnia, from colere to cultivate, inhabit

Synonyms for Colonies

outpost, protectorate, province, territory, antecedents, clearing, dependency, dominion, mandate, offshoot, possession, satellite, settlement, swarm, new land, subject state