Word Meanings - COLONY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A number of animals or plants living or growing together, beyond their usual range. (more info) 1. A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent

Additional info about word: COLONY

A number of animals or plants living or growing together, beyond their usual range. (more info) 1. 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. The first settlers of New England were the best of Englishmen, well educated, devout Christians, and zealous lovers of liberty. There was never a colony formed of better materials. Ames. 2. The district or country colonized; a settlement. 3. A company of persons from the same country sojourning in a foreign city or land; as, the American colony in Paris.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COLONY)

• Settlement
• Subsidence
• dregs
• residuum
• precipitation
• colonization
• location
• colony

Related words: (words related to COLONY)

• COLONIZATION
  Tha act of colonizing, or the state of being colonized; the formation of a colony or colonies. The wide continent of America invited colonization. Bancroft.
• SETTLEMENT
  A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it. 2. That which settles,
• COLONY
  A number of animals or plants living or growing together, beyond their usual range. (more info) 1. A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent
• RESIDUUM
  That which is left after any process of separation or purification; that which remains after certain specified deductions are made; residue. "I think so," is the whole residuum . . . after evaporating the prodigious pretensions of the
• SUBSIDENCE; SUBSIDENCY
  The act or process of subsiding. The subdual or subsidence of the more violent passions. Bp. Warburton.
• COLONIZATIONIST
  A friend to colonization, esp. to the colonization of Africa by emigrants from the colored population of the United States.
• PRECIPITATION
  The act or process from a solution. (more info) 1. The act of precipitating, or the state of being precipitated, or thrown headlong. In peril of precipitation From off rock Tarpeian. Shak. 2. A falling, flowing, or rushing downward with violence
• LOCATION
  The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc. Burrill. Bouvier. (more info) 1. The act or process of locating. 2. Situation; place; locality.
• COLLOCATION
  The act of placing; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement. The choice and collocation of words. Sir W. Jones.
• DISSETTLEMENT
  The act of unsettling, or the state of being unsettled. Marvell.
• DISLOCATION
  The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied. Slips, faults, and the like, are dislocations. (more info) 1. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced. T. Burnet.
• CROWN COLONY
  A colony of the British Empire not having an elective magistracy or a parliament, but governed by a chief magistrate appointed by the Crown, with executive councilors nominated by him and not elected by the people.
• TRANSLOCATION
  removal of things from one place to another; substitution of one thing for another. There happened certain translocations at the deluge. Woodward.
• RELOCATION
  Renewal of a lease. (more info) 1. A second location.
• MISCOLLOCATION
  Wrong collocation. De Quincey.
• ALLOCATION
  1. The act of putting one thing to another; a placing; disposition; arrangement. Hallam. 2. An allotment or apportionment; as, an allocation of shares in a company. The allocation of the particular portions of Palestine to its successive
• INTERLOCATION
  A placing or coming between; interposition.
• ELOCATION
  1. A removal from the usual place of residence. 2. Departure from the usual state; an ecstasy.
• BILOCATION
  Double location; the state or power of being in two places at the same instant; -- a miraculous power attributed to some of the saints. Tylor.
• UNSETTLEMENT
  The act of unsettling, or state of being unsettled; disturbance. J. H. Newman.