colony : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: colony	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for colony
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
colony n 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" Synonym(s): colony, settlement a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated; "a nudist colony"; "an artists' colony" a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country Synonym(s): colony, dependency (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Colony \Col"o*ny\, n. 1. (Bot.) A cell family or group of common origin, mostly of unicellular organisms, esp. among the lower alg[91]. They may adhere in chains or groups, or be held together by a gelatinous envelope.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Colony \Col"ony\, n.; pl. {Colonies}. [L. colonia, fr. colonus farmer, fr. colere to cultivate, dwell: cf. F. colonie. Cf. {Culture}.] 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. 4. (Nat. Hist.) A number of animals or plants living or growing together, beyond their usual range.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Colony, AL (town, FIPS 16684) Location: 33.94138 N, 86.90118 W Population (1990): 298 (106 housing units) Area: 5.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Colony, KS (city, FIPS 14950) Location: 38.07064 N, 95.36216 W Population (1990): 447 (197 housing units) Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 66015 Colony, OK (town, FIPS 16400) Location: 35.34765 N, 98.67011 W Population (1990): 163 (78 housing units) Area: 2.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 73021
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Colony The city of Philippi was a Roman colony (Acts 16:12), i.e., a military settlement of Roman soldiers and citizens, planted there to keep in subjection a newly-conquered district. A colony was Rome in miniature, under Roman municipal law, but governed by military officers (praetors and lictors), not by proconsuls. It had an independent internal government, the jus Italicum; i.e., the privileges of Italian citizens.