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colony (enc)
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Colony| Noun | 1. | colony - 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 governmentbody - a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity; "the whole body filed out of the auditorium" Plantation - a newly established colony (especially in the colonization of North America); "the practice of sending convicted criminals to serve on the Plantations was common in the 17th century" 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 | | | 2. | colony - a group of animals of the same type living together | | | 3. | Colony - one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United StatesConnecticut - one of the British colonies that formed the United States Delaware - one of the British colonies that formed the United States Georgia - one of the British colonies that formed the United States Maryland - one of the British colonies that formed the United States New Hampshire - one of the British colonies that formed the United States New Jersey - one of the British colonies that formed the United States New York - one of the British colonies that formed the United States North Carolina - one of the British colonies that formed the United States Pennsylvania - one of the British colonies that formed the United States Rhode Island - one of the British colonies that formed the United States South Carolina - one of the British colonies that formed the United States Virginia - one of the British colonies that formed the United States | | | 4. | colony - a geographical area politically controlled by a distant countryCrown Colony - a British colony controlled by the British Crown, represented by a governor 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 | | | 5. | colony - (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cellmicrobiology - the branch of biology that studies microorganisms and their effects on humans | |
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