Dictionary entry details
• COLONY (noun)
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
colony; settlement
Hypernyms ("colony" is a kind of...):
body (a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity)
Meronyms (members of "colony"):
colonial (a resident of a colony)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "colony"):
frontier settlement; outpost (a settlement on the frontier of civilization)
Plantation (a newly established colony (especially in the colonization of North America))
proprietary colony (a colony given to a proprietor to govern (in 17th century))
Instance hyponyms:
Demerara (a former Dutch colony in South America; now a part of Guyana)
Calpe; Gibraltar; Rock of Gibraltar (location of a colony of the United Kingdom on a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain; strategically important because it can control the entrance of ships into the Mediterranean; one of the Pillars of Hercules)
Plymouth Colony (colony formed by the Pilgrims when they arrived at Plymouth Rock in 1620; it was absorbed into the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1691)
New Amsterdam (a settlement established by the Dutch near the mouth of Hudson River and the southern end of Manhattan Island; annexed by the English in 1664 and renamed New York)
Meaning:
A group of animals of the same type living together
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("colony" is a kind of...):
animal group (a group of animals)
Meaning:
One of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("Colony" is a kind of...):
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)
Instance hyponyms:
South Carolina; Rhode Island; Pennsylvania; North Carolina; New York; New Jersey; New Hampshire; Massachusetts; Massachusetts Bay Colony; Maryland; Georgia; Delaware; Connecticut; Virginia (one of the British colonies that formed the United States)
Holonyms ("Colony" is a part of...):
America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)
Meaning:
A geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
dependency; colony
Hypernyms ("colony" is a kind of...):
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "colony"):
Crown Colony (a British colony controlled by the British Crown, represented by a governor)
Instance hyponyms:
New Netherland (a Dutch colony in North America along the Hudson and lower Delaware rivers although the colony centered in New Amsterdam; annexed by the English in 1664)
Meaning:
(microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("colony" is a kind of...):
animal group (a group of animals)
Domain category:
microbiology (the branch of biology that studies microorganisms and their effects on humans)
