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- Dictionarycolony/ˈkɒləni/
noun
- 1. a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country: "Japanese forces overran the French colony of Indo-China" Similar
- 2. a group of people of one nationality or race living in a foreign place: "the British colony in New York" Similar
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The meaning of COLONY is an area over which a foreign nation or state extends or maintains control; also : a group of people who establish residence in that area and who retain ties with the parent state. How to use colony in a sentence.
a country or area controlled politically by a more powerful country. A colony is also a group of people with a shared interest or job who live together: an artists ’ colony. A colony is also a group of animals, insects, or plants of the same type that live together: an ant colony.
Colony definition: a country or territory claimed and forcibly taken control of by a foreign power which sends its own people to settle there. See examples of COLONY used in a sentence.
a country or area controlled politically by a more powerful country. A colony is also a group of people with a shared interest or job who live together: an artists ’ colony. A colony is also a group of animals, insects, or plants of the same type that live together: an ant colony.
colony. noun. /ˈkɒləni/. /ˈkɑːləni/. (plural colonies) [countable]a country or an area that is governed by people from another, more powerful, country. former British colonies. the Declaration of Independence of the 13 colonies and the creation of the United States. Extra Examples.
A colony is a group of people who settle in a new place but keep ties to their homeland. The people who founded the United States first came to America to live as part of a British colony.
A colony is a country which is controlled by a more powerful country. He was born in Algeria, a former colony of France. ...the quantity of gold and silver raised in the Spanish colonies.
