colony

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

noun

1. 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 (Freq. 7)
- the American colony in Paris
• Syn:
settlement
• Derivationally related forms:
settle (for: settlement), colonial, colonist, colonize, colonise
• Hypernyms:
body
• Hyponyms:
frontier settlement, outpost, Plantation, proprietary colony
• Instance Hyponyms:
Demerara, Gibraltar, Rock of Gibraltar, Calpe, Plymouth Colony, New Amsterdam
• Member Meronyms:
colonial
2. a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together (Freq. 2)
• Derivationally related forms:
colonial
• Hypernyms:
biological group
• Part Meronyms:
caste
3. a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated
- a nudist colony
- an artists' colony
• Hypernyms:
place, property
4. a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
• Syn:
dependency
• Derivationally related forms:
dependent (for: dependency), colonial, colonist
• Hypernyms:
geographical area, geographic area, geographical region, geographic region
• Hyponyms:
Crown Colony
• Instance Hyponyms:
Cayman Islands, New Netherland
5. (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
• Topics:
microbiology
• Hypernyms:
animal group

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  dependency, Colony, settlement