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

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, dependency, settlement, addiction

6. colonynoun

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

   Synonyms:
   dependency, settlement

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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. Efraim Zuroff:

   Many leading Nazis went to Argentina Josef Mengel, Adolf Eichmann, Josef Schwamberger so this finding is possible, but the bottom line is that it never reached fruition, this secret colony of Nazis.

2. Bruce Patterson:

   Because they huddle together and take care of each other, it doesnt take long for a pathogen to get passed from one end of the colony to the other.

3. Anna Veduta:

   Even if the reports about Navalny being transferred to the Melekhovo Penal Colony are true, it is hardly a relief. This colony is known to be one of the toughest and most torturous in Russia, before Navalny’s appeal to a nine-year sentence in a maximum-security prison was upheld, there were already rumors he would be transferred to this colony.

4. James Nieh:

   This method attracts males, but if they've already mated, the females are free to fly off and start a new colony.

5. Nefeli Dimou:

   I believe such a result can be used as a strong negotiating tool so that Europeans can understand that we are not a colony.