Definition of convict colony in English:
convict colony
nounPlural convict colonies
Australian historical An Australian colony regarded primarily as a place of penal servitude.
he served as a governor of the early convict colony
Example sentencesExamples
- Resistance to the harsh discipline of the convict colonies was channelled into demands for constitutional liberties.
- If the convicts who were landed there by sea in 1821 to start an 'isolated convict colony' were to return today I am sure they would be gobsmacked.
- It's a historical drama about the first Australian convict colony.
- Overcrowding in convict colonies was less serious than the current overcrowding among elderly people cared for in buildings constructed to house convicts.
- I turn up to an Ashes game and the Barmy Army are singing 'you all live in a convict colony' to the tune of Yellow Submarine.
- Nothing reveals Sydney's rise from convict colony to cosmopolitan city as deliciously as a look behind our kitchens and dining rooms doors.
- He shows how a convict colony could have become a banana republic.
- The acting colonial secretary had recently arrived from the convict colony of New South Wales.
- The match was a contest between a caste system and a convict colony, the Australian tailenders playing the role of emancipists rising up.
- In the early years of the Australian convict colonies, the fate of individual convicts turned largely on their perceived usefulness in creating a new society.