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colony

noun
/ˈkɒl.ə.ni/UK/ˈkɔlənɪj//ˈkɔl.ə.ni/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁-e-ti Proto-Italic *kʷelō Latin colō Latin colōnus Latin colōniader. Middle English colane English colony From Middle English colane, colonye, from Latin colōnia (“colony”), from colōnus (“farmer; colonist”), from colō (“till, cultivate, worship”), from earlier *quelō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”). Doublet of Cologne, Colonia, and Köln.

  1. derived from *kʷel-✻
  2. derived from colōnia
  3. inherited from colane

Definitions

  1. A geographical area under the remote control of a country

    A geographical area under the remote control of a country; especially to extract resources or exploit labor from that area.

    • Much of the eastern United States was formerly a British colony; other areas were French, Spanish, Dutch, or Swedish colonies.
    • Bermuda is a crown colony of Great Britain.

  2. A group of people who settle an area and maintain ties to their country of origin.

    • a colony of British expats in Spain
    • The Amana Colonies in Iowa were settled by people from Germany.
    • The question of ecclesiastical jurisdiction had to be answered before the colony sailed for East Florida.

  3. A group of people with similar interests, occupations, or characteristics, living in a…

    A group of people with similar interests, occupations, or characteristics, living in a particular area; the area such people occupy.

    • a nudist colony; the statue was put up right in the middle of the artist colony
    • a leper colony on the outskirts of town; most buildings in the penal colony were made of concrete
  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. A group of organisms of same or different species living together in close association.

      • ant colony; coral colony
      • a colony of specialized polyps and medusoids
      • colonies of stem cells

    2. An apartment complex or neighborhood.

      • Our colony is quite small, but each apartment is large.

    3. A local group of Beaver Scouts.

    4. A potential new chapter of a fraternity or sorority awaiting official recognition from…

      A potential new chapter of a fraternity or sorority awaiting official recognition from their headquarters.

    5. To colonize.

      • Such black Attendants Colonied thy Cell, / But for thy Preſence, Car’sbrook had been Hell.
      • The noble Island (which was colonied [translating habitavam] / Sometime by Tyrians) was not wanting here, / Who, on their Banners in thoſe days of yore / The famous Pillars of Alcides bore.
      • The emperor meant rather to ſignify, by the altar and ſacrifice, that the old religion was aboliſhed in this province, which he had colonied with new inhabitants.

    6. A place in the United States

      A place in the United States:

The neighborhood

Derived

artificial bee colony, autocolony, bird colony, Cape Colony, Colony of Virginia, crown colony, Delft Colony, freedom colony, leper colony, Lost Colony, lunar colony, macrocolony, megacolony, Mexican Colony, microcolony, monocolony, neo-colony, nudist colony, O'Neill colony, Orange River Colony, paleocolony, penal colony, pseudocolony, Roanoke Colony, rolony, semi-colony, space colony, subcolony, supercolony, coloner, colonial, colonialism, coloniarch, colonigenic, colonise, colonize, colonist, colony collapse disorder, colony counter, colony-forming unit · +7 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at colony. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at colony. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at colony

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA