'colony' in a sentence
Learn how to use 'colony' with 12 example sentences.
- colony noun
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: 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
: a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together
: a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated
: a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
: (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
Both ants and termites live in large colonies.
Brazil was a Portuguese colony.
At one time Nigeria was a British colony.
Cyprus was a British colony.
Scientists have just discovered a colony of flying penguins living in Antarctica.
The colony declared independence and became a republic.
The other colonies began sending troops to help.
The hospital for this Mars colony is underground.
Papua New Guinea was a German colony.
The entire colony will inherit the mutant DNA.
In this colony he is lord of life and death.
Some say that China was like a Russian colony.