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.
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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61 The colony are the survivors of 60 baboons which escaped from a safari park that closed 20 years ago.
62 Later, they went regularly to Dhapa, the large leprosy colony in Calcutta, where they tended the sick.
63 It is 1962 now, but the Colony hasn't changed a jot.
64 In a room enlivened by a colony intelligence, visitors are at a disadvantage.
65 A report commissioned by the group identified a total of 315,000 staff which the colony needed to keep.
66 In 1678 he was chosen deputy governor and in the following year was elected governor of the colony.
67 A plastic dustbin with breeding colony on to which organic waste is showered.
68 In 1681 the Quaker William Penn founded the colony of Pennsylvania.
69 The Cathedral in Hong Kong was a significant part of our life in the colony.
70 In other words, within a colony[sentencedict.com], sons are worth more than brothers.
71 This was to prevent attacks by bandits on travellers whose cries floated nightly over the fields to the colony.
72 Far out to sea lies the gannet colony of Grassholm.
73 They establish a colony on Ragol but this perfect planet soon unleashes a few surprises and all hell breaks loose.
74 You will be happy to hear that I am in excellent health and the colony agrees with me well.
75 This system prevailed over a colony whose territorial boundaries were not determined by the pre-colonial boundaries recognised by the indigenous populations.
76 It shows that every inhabitant of a mole-rat colony is a close relative.
77 Powered by solar panels and car batteries, the music machines repeatedly play a 15-minute recording made of the Farallones murre colony.
78 Today Pine Gap looks like an advance moon colony in the Sea of Tranquillity.
79 His Superintendent asked for a priest to go to the island of Molokai where a colony of lepers lived in appalling conditions.
80 Any benefit to the native inhabitants of the colony was incidental.
81 At its nadir in 1983, the Alameda colony had only 3 nesting pairs.
82 In 1619 the Company sent ninety women to delight the men and assure the future of the colony.
83 We have a mobile clinic for them with eight centres. 1 want to start a colony for them.
84 Nearly everything else follows the ground plan of the later, and much larger, colony base station.
85 He could throw his lot in with the Lord General, and perhaps become a governor of one of the colony worlds.
86 In a commune on the outskirts of the city, we saw a new colony of houses being built.
87 This might appear to be the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of the colony, but all the bees in the colony are genetically related.
88 Finally he is said to have settled at Elea, a new colony south of Paestum.
89 Farther down the coast we saw a huge kittiwake colony on an inland cliff and went to investigate.
90 He was appointed superintendent of the penal colony on Norfolk Island in 1840.