Definitions
a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together
Word origin
From Middle English colane, colonye, from Latin colōnia (“colony”), from colōnus (“farmer; colonist”), from colō (“till, cultivate, worship”), from earlier *quelō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”). Doublet of Cologne, Colonia, and Köln.
Used in a sentence
“Much of the eastern United States was formerly a British colony; other areas were French, Spanish, Dutch, or Swedish colonies.”
“Bermuda is a crown colony of Great Britain.”
“[…] money problems and refusal to supply them with British coins were two big reasons why the thirteen colonies rebelled and declared their independence.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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