Antonyms for colony
ˈkɒl ə nicolony

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1. colony, settlementnoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   village, colonization, dependency, settlement, small town, resolution, liquidation, colonisation, closure

2. colonynoun

   a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together

   Synonyms:
   dependency, settlement

3. Colonynoun

   one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States

   Synonyms:
   dependency, settlement

4. colonynoun

   a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated

   "a nudist colony"; "an artists' colony"

   Synonyms:
   dependency, settlement

5. colony, dependencynoun

   a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country

   Synonyms:
   dependence, dependance, habituation, dependency, settlement, addiction

6. colonynoun

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

   Synonyms:
   dependency, settlement

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. colonynoun

   Synonyms:
   settlement, dependency

   Associated words:
   colonial, colonist, planter, colonize, colonization, colonizationist

How to use colony in a sentence?

1. Bruce Patterson:

   Because they huddle together and take care of each other, it doesnt take long for a pathogen to get passed from one end of the colony to the other.

2. H.W. Mann:

   Look at nature. A single bee cannot really do much. But you put a group of bees together and they can form a hive. A colony of bees that work in harmony. Each one doing its part. Some bees collect pollen. Some bees tend to the hive. Some bees guard the hive. Some bees tend to the nursery. Together they make a lot of honey.

3. Peter Fretwell:

   Emperor penguins at the Halley Bay colony in Weddell Sea have failed to raise chicks for the last three years, the colony has now all but disappeared.

4. Fazlur Rehman:

   This law makes a man insecure, this law is an attempt to make Pakistan a Western colony again.

5. Efraim Zuroff:

   Many leading Nazis went to Argentina Josef Mengel, Adolf Eichmann, Josef Schwamberger so this finding is possible, but the bottom line is that it never reached fruition, this secret colony of Nazis.

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