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. Nefeli Dimou:

   I believe such a result can be used as a strong negotiating tool so that Europeans can understand that we are not a colony.

2. Julio Pabon:

   Hurricane Maria unmasked that we are a colony, i ’m just tired of the way my island has been treated.

3. Karen Pence:

   One of the reasons that we wanted to bring a bee hive to the vice president's residence was because we wanted to help our bee population and we do have colony collapse disorder.

4. Piotr Liroy-Marzec:

   I want to sing songs about flowers and butterflies, but while the political system remains unchanged, I can't sing songs about love because I live in a matrix, in a state which is a colony of banks and corporations.

5. Justin Chang:

   It's the right time for Colony Capital to do more in China, over the next three-to-five years Asia, and China in particular, will be the fastest growing part of our business.

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