Synonyms for Colony
ˈkɒl ə nicolony

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.8 / 4 votes

1. colony, settlementnoun

   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

   "the American colony in Paris"

   Synonyms:
   village, colonization, dependency, settlement, small town, resolution, liquidation, colonisation, closure, colony

2. colonynoun

   a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together

   Synonyms:
   dependency, settlement

3. Colonynoun

   one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States

   Synonyms:
   dependency, settlement

4. colonynoun

   a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated

   "a nudist colony"; "an artists' colony"

   Synonyms:
   dependency, settlement

5. colony, dependencynoun

   a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country

   Synonyms:
   dependence, dependance, habituation, colony, dependency, settlement, addiction

6. colonynoun

   (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell

   Synonyms:
   dependency, settlement

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1. • United States
   • Animal Group
   • Biological Group
   • Body
   • Geographical Area
   • Microbiology
   • Place

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. colonynoun

   Synonyms:
   settlement, dependency

   Associated words:
   colonial, colonist, planter, colonize, colonization, colonizationist

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "colony":

   colonies, cologne, colonial, settlement, settlements

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1. Andrea Crawford:

   They are a vulnerable species that need all the help they can get, it’s unlikely the Otago Peninsula colony would exist at all without ongoing human intervention, including the control of introduced predators such as stoats and cats.

2. Peter Fretwell:

   Emperor penguins at the Halley Bay colony in Weddell Sea have failed to raise chicks for the last three years, the colony has now all but disappeared.

3. American Paul Whelan:

   It is both awful and mundane, just another day that Paul has to suffer in a Russian labor colony for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Another day that our parents have to suffer without being able to see or be with their son, it is both a culmination of lost life – four years of missed birthdays, Christmases, and other experiences – and also not an end point.

4. Gary Lewin:

   Mole rat colonies are incredibly xenophobic. If a mole rat comes from a different colony, within minutes, they are recognized and usually killed by the colony it invades.

5. Steven Grant:

   We're still connected to them, maybe as a colony used to be, but we're not governed by them, we just want to stay as we are, British. We don't need anything to change. All we hope is that things on the frontier don't change either.