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Synonyms for colony
ˈkɒl ə nicolony
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Princeton's WordNet
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"
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village, colonization, dependency, settlement, small town, resolution, liquidation, colonisation, closurecolonynoun
a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together
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dependency, settlementColonynoun
one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
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dependency, settlementcolonynoun
a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated
"a nudist colony"; "an artists' colony"
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dependency, settlementcolony, dependencynoun
a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
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dependence, dependance, habituation, dependency, settlement, addictioncolonynoun
(microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
Synonyms:
dependency, settlement
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
colonynoun
Synonyms:
settlement, dependencyAssociated words:
colonial, colonist, planter, colonize, colonization, colonizationist
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1488 | resolution | |
#1933 | village | |
#4075 | settlement | |
#6511 | addiction | |
#7169 | closure | |
#7506 | colonial | |
#9159 | dependence | |
#9598 | colony | |
#9972 | cologne | |
#11116 | dependency | |
#11310 | settlements | |
#14276 | colonies | |
#17647 | liquidation | |
#27588 | colonization | |
#65030 | colonisation | |
#88863 | habituation | |
#124651 | dependance |
How to use colony in a sentence?
We are truly headed for the status of a colony - and many will struggle to see the economic or political advantage of that particular arrangement.
We used a bacterial artificial chromosome library to generate and verify sex specific sequence and probes that were important to determine the underlying sex of individuals, a BAC library is constructed by cutting up the dragon DNA, the whole genome, and inserting the fragments into bacterial colonies, one fragment per colony, so you can pull particular dragon sequence out at will.
It's crazy the ones we have removed from there because generally an average colony of bees that have moved in and' set up shop' so to speak, will be about 40,000 bees on average, and as you can see, the ones there are gigantic, word on the street is it's a great place to live !
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.
They saw some of the most challenging times for Virginia's history and helped save the colony and ultimately helped save English America.
Translations for colony
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- مستعمرةArabic
- кало́ніяBelarusian
- коло́нияBulgarian
- colòniaCatalan, Valencian
- kolonieCzech
- koloniDanish
- KolonieGerman
- αποικίαGreek
- kolonioEsperanto
- coloniaSpanish
- مستعمرهPersian
- siirtomaa, yhdyskunta, yhteiskuntaFinnish
- colonieFrench
- tuineachasScottish Gaelic
- מושבהHebrew
- कॉलोनीHindi
- gyarmat, kolóniaHungarian
- գաղութArmenian
- coloniaItalian
- 植民地, コロニーJapanese
- კოლონიაGeorgian
- 식민지Korean
- mêtingeh, kolonîKurdish
- colōniaLatin
- ຫົວເມືອງຂຶ້ນLao
- kolonijaLatvian
- koroniMāori
- коло́нијаMacedonian
- koloniNorwegian
- kolonieDutch
- koloniNorwegian Nynorsk
- koloniaPolish
- colôniaPortuguese
- mitmaQuechua
- colonieRomanian
- поселе́ние, коло́нияRussian
- kolonija, колонијаSerbo-Croatian
- kolóniaSlovak
- kolonijaSlovene
- koloniSwedish
- อาณานิคมThai
- koloniTurkish
- коло́ніяUkrainian
- thuộc địaVietnamese
- 殖民地Chinese
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