Colony

['kɒlənɪ] or ['kɑləni]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together.

(noun.) (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell.

(noun.) 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; 'the American colony in Paris'.

(noun.) a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country.

(noun.) a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated; 'a nudist colony'; 'an artists' colony'.

(noun.) one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States.

手打:柴门霍夫--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent state; as, the British colonies in America.

(n.) The district or country colonized; a settlement.

(n.) A company of persons from the same country sojourning in a foreign city or land; as, the American colony in Paris.

(n.) A number of animals or plants living or growing together, beyond their usual range.

吉尔手打

解釋/意思:

n. a name somewhat vaguely applied to the foreign dependencies of a state (a Roman colony was a military settlement planted in subject territory; a Greek colony consisted of a band of emigrants impelled to seek a new home and connected with their mother-city by no stronger tie than that of sentiment): a body of persons who form a fixed settlement in another country: the settlement so formed: the place they inhabit.—adj. Colōn′ial pertaining to a colony.—n. an inhabitant of a colony a colonist.—ns. Colōn′ialism a trait of colonial life or speech; Colonisā′tion act or practice of colonising: state of being colonised.—v.t. Col′onise to plant or establish a colony in: to form into a colony.—v.i. to settle.—n. Col′onist an inhabitant of a colony.—Colonial animals organisms which cannot be fairly regarded as unities but consist of numerous individuals united in a common life; Colonial system the theory that the settlements abroad were to be treated as proprietary domains exploited for the benefit of the mother-country.

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