colony
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
colony/ˈkɒləni/
▶noun (pl. colonies)
- 1 a country or area under the political control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country.
■ (the colonies) all the foreign places formerly under British political control.
■ (the colonies) the thirteen areas on the east coast of North America that gained independence and founded the United States of America.
- 2 a group of people of one nationality or race living in a foreign place.
■ a place where a group of people with the same occupation or interest live together: a nudist colony.
- 3 Biology a community of animals or plants of one kind living close together or forming a physically connected structure.
– origin ME: from L. colonia ‘settlement, farm’, from colonus ‘settler, farmer’, from colere ‘cultivate’.
'colony' also found in these Oxford entries:
Acadian
- ant
- colonial
- colonist
- colonize
- Crown Colony
- decolonize
- drone
- gannetry
- governor
- gullery
- heronry
- indenture
- metropole
- metropolitan
- plant
- plantation
- polypary
- proconsul
- queen
- queen bee
- rookery
- sea pen
- self-governing
- self-government
- stolon
- swarm
- termitarium
- transport
- viceroy
- Voortrekker
- worker

