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单词 colony
释义 colony
 /kol"euh nee/,  n.  ,  pl.   colonies.
  1. a group of people who leave their native country to form in a new land a settlement subject to, or connected with, the parent nation.
  2. the country or district settled or colonized: Many Western nations are former European colonies.
  3. any people or territory separated from but subject to a ruling power.
  4. the Colonies, those British colonies that formed the original 13 states of the United States: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
  5. a number of people coming from the same country, or speaking the same language, residing in a foreign country or city, or a particular section of it; enclave: the Polish colony in Israel; the American colony in Paris.
  6. any group of individuals having similar interests, occupations, etc., usually living in a particular locality; community: a colony of artists.
  7. the district, quarter, or dwellings inhabited by any such number or group: The Greek island is now an artists' colony.
  8. an aggregation of bacteria growing together as the descendants of a single cell.
  9.  Ecol.   a group of organisms of the same kind living or growing in close association.
 [1350-1400; ME colonie ( < MF) < L colonia, equiv. to colon(us) COLONUS + -ia -Y3]
 Syn. 6. body, band.
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