Colony
['kɒlənɪ] or ['kɑləni]
Definition
(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.
Typist: Zamenhof--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
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Definition
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.
Editor: Lyle
Examples
- The councils, which, in the colony legislatures, correspond to the house of lords in Great Britain, are not composed of a hereditary nobility. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The men and women in the Cave Colony suddenly found that one bright-eyed young fellow, with a little straighter forehead than the others, was beating them all at hunting. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- His loss is deeply felt in the flourishing colony. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- In 1635 he moved to what is now Windsor, Connecticut, and was the surveyor for that colony for more than forty years. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There is plenty of room yet; for my colony, in spite of its forty years, is only yet in its infancy. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- But allowing the colony security to be perfectly good, ?100, payable fifteen years hence, for example, in a country where interest is at six per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Its principal object was to prevent the search of the colony ships, which carried on a contraband trade with the Spanish Main. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But being neglected by Sweden, it was soon swallowed up by the Dutch colony of New York, which again, in 1674, fell under the dominion of the English. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It is rather for the manufactured than for the rude produce of Europe, that the colony trade opens a new market. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I should like to take a great deal of land, and drain it, and make a little colony, where everybody should work, and all the work should be done well. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I have never know'd her to be lone and lorn, for a single minute, not even when the colony was all afore us, and we was new to it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- To satisfy them in some measure, therefore, they frequently proposed to send out a new colony. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The young couple had a house near Berkeley Square and a small villa at Roehampton, among the banking colony there. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The dominant northern colony was Massachusetts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Among the oldest of these settlements was the colony of Virginia, the name of which commemorates Queen Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen of England. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Such colonies, therefore, have been a source of expense, and not of revenue, to their respective mother countries. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Agriculture is the proper business of all new colonies; a business which the cheapness of land renders more advantageous than any other. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- There is also every reason to believe that the French colonists in Maryland and Canada let no great time elapse before importing tables and equipment into those colonies. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It is true Carthagena is in America, but as remote from the northern colonies as if it had been in Europe. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The Roman colonies furnished occasionally both the one and the other. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- That of England contributed as little towards effectuating the establishment of some of its most important colonies in North America. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- And they may believe you never will exercise it in the colonies any more than in Ireland, unless on some very extraordinary occasion. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- There was a rapid development of plantations and proprietary colonies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In all European colonies, the culture of the sugar-cane is carried on by negro slaves. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Gold and silver, therefore, very seldom appear in the commerce between Great Britain and the tobacco colonies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The Honourable Ronald Adair was the second son of the Earl of Maynooth, at that time governor of one of the Australian colonies. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Such have been the general outlines of the policy of the different European nations with regard to their colonies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Both Ireland and the colonies, indeed, would be subjected to heavier taxes than any which they at present pay. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Here we note it simply as an added factor in the heterogeneous mixture of the British Colonies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Unjust, however, as such prohibitions may be, they have not hitherto been very hurtful to the colonies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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