Synonym: community, settlement. Similar words: colonial, color, Color., colorful, prolong, no longer, so long as, ecological. Meaning: ['kɒlənɪ] n. 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 2. a group of animals of the same type living together 3. one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States 4. a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country 5. (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell.
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31 Mr Patten pledged to continue fighting for greater democracy for the colony.
32 A colony of ants on the move from one nest site to another exhibits the Kafkaesque underside of emergent control.
33 It was three times the size of the Jamestown colony that was founded in 1607.
34 In 1679 the territory of New Hampshire was carved out of it, and was established as a separate colony.
35 Observed by a colony of seals, we landed in a natural sheltered harbour.
36 Keeping an eye on the colony over the next fortnight I saw that another half-dozen polyps had followed the first.
37 She bore two children, was banished from the colony and yet reappeared later.
38 Whenever possible breeding colony staff should not be involved with other animals of a potentially lower health status.
39 So do the million and a half termites living in the colony.
40 Co-operation within a colony, especially by means of labour-dividing castes[Sentence dictionary], is probably what ants are most famous for.
41 The primary exhibit area will focus on the Turnbull Colony.
42 The architecture of the chapel at the Guell colony is like a study of intimate female anatomy.
43 In 1980, the former British colony of Rhodesia gained independence as the Republic of Zimbabwe.
44 A nudist colony of angels exercised their wings in Eastbourne cemetery.
45 Calvert shared his father's interest in the new world and was actively involved in his effort to establish a colony.
46 Tom Langton, a campaigner on behalf of adders, has managed to find only one adder colony in the whole of Greater London.
47 Louverture headed the revolt of the slaves in the French colony of San Domingo.
48 Other private operations at the shipyard include an artists' colony, ship repair and several warehouse operations.
49 The outcome of these behaviours in a captive colony is the formation of one-male groups similar to those found in the wild.
50 There were no brothels in the colony you see before we came - but every town now has a fair selection.
51 A colony of 25 rare striped lychnis moth caterpillars has been found in a churchyard at Headbourne Worthy in Hampshire.
52 But in other ways the colony lagged behind, especially when government expenditure was at stake.
53 This makes the whole colony a sitting duck for a man with a gun.
54 The road itself had become a colony of residents specializing in theatrical and allied activities.
55 Hughes's book 'The Fatal Shore' is a study of the origins of Australia as a British penal colony.
56 Others, like sponges, consisted of a colony of cells with a porous skeleton.
57 At the time, Dorset was beginning the transition from picturesque dairy country to affluent summer artist colony.
58 When the colony was discovered eighteen years later, ten of the women had survived and only one of the men.
59 The colony was doomed to be swallowed by Massachusetts and Rhode Island, which had royal charters as it did not.
60 The United States was once a colony of Great Britain.