colony
A geographical area under the remote control of a country; especially to extract resources or exploit labor from that area.
Example
“Much of the eastern United States was formerly a British colony; other areas were French, Spanish, Dutch, or Swedish colonies.”
Other meanings
A group of people who settle an area and maintain ties to their country of origin.
“a colony of British expats in Spain”
A group of people with similar interests, occupations or characteristics, living in a particular area; the area such people occupy.
“a nudist colony; the statue was put up right in the middle of the artist colony”
Synonyms
- settlement
Related words
- The Colony
- ant colony
- autocolony
- macrocolony
- megacolony
- microcolony
- monocolony
- paleocolony
- pseudocolony
- rolony
- subcolony
- supercolony
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "colōnia".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “colony” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.