Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of colon is as below...

Tory :: Tory (n.) One who, in the time of the Revolution, favored submitting tothe claims of Great Britain against the colonies; an adherent tothe crown..

Constantia :: Constantia (n.) A superior wine, white and red, from Constantia, in Cape Colony..

Felonry :: Felonry (n.) A body of felons; specifically, the convict population of a penal colony..

Colonelcy :: Colonelcy (n.) The office, rank, or commission of a colonel..

Colonizing :: Colonizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coloniz.

Brigadier General :: Brigadier general () An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below a major general. He commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a shortening of his title, simple a brigadier..

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) A colony newly established; a place or region newly settled; as, settlement in the West..

Rookery :: Rookery (n.) The breeding place of a colony of rooks; also, the birds themselves..

Colonitis :: Colonitis (n.) See Colitis.

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..

Commission :: Commission (n.) A certificate conferring military or naval rank and authority; as, a colonel's commission..

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..

Hydranth :: Hydranth (n.) One of the nutritive zooids of a hydroid colony. Also applied to the proboscis or manubrium of a hydroid medusa. See Illust. of Hydroidea.

Gonosome :: Gonosome (n.) The reproductive zooids of a hydroid colony, collectively..

Colonel :: Colonel (n.) The chief officer of a regiment; an officer ranking next above a lieutenant colonel and next below a brigadier general.

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..

Semicolon :: Semicolon (n.) The punctuation mark [;] indicating a separation between parts or members of a sentence more distinct than that marked by a comma.

Excellency :: Excellency (n.) A title of honor given to certain high dignitaries, esp. to viceroys, ministers, and ambassadors, to English colonial governors, etc. It was formerly sometimes given to kings and princes..

Colonnade :: Colonnade (n.) A series or range of columns placed at regular intervals with all the adjuncts, as entablature, stylobate, roof, etc..

Catallacta :: Catallacta (n. pl.) A division of Protozoa, of which Magosphaera is the type. They exist both in a myxopod state, with branched pseudopodia, and in the form of ciliated bodies united in free, spherical colonies..

Random Fonts

Most Popular