Definition of colony

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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..

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Rookery :: Rookery (n.) The breeding place of a colony of rooks; also, the birds themselves..
Colonist :: Colonist (n.) A member or inhabitant of a colony.
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..
Felonry :: Felonry (n.) A body of felons; specifically, the convict population of a penal colony..
Colony :: Colony (n.) The district or country colonized; a settlement.
Constantia :: Constantia (n.) A superior wine, white and red, from Constantia, in Cape Colony..
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..
Settlement :: Settlement (n.) A colony newly established; a place or region newly settled; as, settlement in the West..
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..
Plant :: Plant (n.) To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony..
Colonize :: Colonize (v. t.) To plant or establish a colony or colonies in; to people with colonists; to migrate to and settle in.
Kafir :: Kafir (n.) One of a race which, with the Hottentots and Bushmen, inhabit South Africa. They inhabit the country north of Cape Colony, the name being now specifically applied to the tribes living between Cape Colony and Natal; but the Zulus of Natal are true Kaffirs..
Gonosome :: Gonosome (n.) The reproductive zooids of a hydroid colony, collectively..
Colonization :: Colonization (n.) The act of colonizing, or the state of being colonized; the formation of a colony or colonies..
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..
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..
Colonial :: Colonial (a.) Of or pertaining to a colony; as, colonial rights, traffic, wars..
Hydrosoma :: Hydrosoma (n.) All the zooids of a hydroid colony collectively, including the nutritive and reproductive zooids, and often other kinds..
Plantation :: Plantation (n.) An original settlement in a new country; a colony.
Meride :: Meride (n.) A permanent colony of cells or plastids which may remain isolated, like Rotifer, or may multiply by gemmation to form higher aggregates, termed zoides..
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