Definition of colony

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Colony (n.) The district or country colonized; a settlement.

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Hydrosoma :: Hydrosoma (n.) All the zooids of a hydroid colony collectively, including the nutritive and reproductive zooids, and often other kinds..
Colonial :: Colonial (a.) Of or pertaining to a colony; as, colonial rights, traffic, wars..
Plantation :: Plantation (n.) An original settlement in a new country; a colony.
Settler :: Settler (n.) Especially, one who establishes himself in a new region or a colony; a colonist; a planter; as, the first settlers of New England..
Colonize :: Colonize (v. i.) To remove to, and settle in, a distant country; to make a colony..
Colonizer :: Colonizer (n.) One who promotes or establishes a colony; a colonist.
Settlement :: Settlement (n.) The act of peopling, or state of being peopled; act of planting, as a colony; colonization; occupation by settlers; as, the settlement of a new country..
Bryozoum :: Bryozoum (n.) An individual zooid of a bryozoan coralline, of which there may be two or more kinds in a single colony. The zooecia usually have a wreath of tentacles around the mouth, and a well developed stomach and intestinal canal; but these parts are lacking in the other zooids (Avicularia, Ooecia, etc.)..
Veretillum :: Veretillum (n.) Any one of numerous species of club-shaped, compound Alcyonaria belonging to Veretillum and allied genera, of the tribe Pennatulacea. The whole colony can move about as if it were a simple animal..
Colonize :: Colonize (v. t.) To plant or establish a colony or colonies in; to people with colonists; to migrate to and settle in.
Colony :: Colony (n.) The district or country colonized; a settlement.
Colonization :: Colonization (n.) The act of colonizing, or the state of being colonized; the formation of a colony or colonies..
Settlement :: Settlement (n.) A colony newly established; a place or region newly settled; as, settlement in the West..
Establish :: Establish (a.) To originate and secure the permanent existence of; to found; to institute; to create and regulate; -- said of a colony, a state, or other institutions..
Colony :: Colony (n.) A company of persons from the same country sojourning in a foreign city or land; as, the American colony in Paris..
Colony :: Colony (n.) A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent state; as, the British colonies in America..
Exterminate :: Exterminate (v. t.) To destroy utterly; to cut off; to extirpate; to annihilate; to root out; as, to exterminate a colony, a tribe, or a nation; to exterminate error or vice..
Residency :: Residency (n.) A political agency at a native court in British India, held by an officer styled the Resident; also, a Dutch commercial colony or province in the East Indies..
Dependency :: Dependency (n.) A territory remote from the kingdom or state to which it belongs, but subject to its dominion; a colony; as, Great Britain has its dependencies in Asia, Africa, and America..
Colonist :: Colonist (n.) A member or inhabitant of a colony.
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