colony

[US]/ˈkɒləni/
[UK]/ˈkɑːləni/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n.colony;group of immigrants

Phrases & Collocations

a British colony

a former colony

a settler colony

bacterial colony

colony formation

crown colony

colony count

penal colony

Example Sentences

a colony of seals.

the American colony in Paris.

the British colony in New York.

the site of a hypothetical colony;

a town that is the heart of the colony;

If America were still a British colony,

Britain’s oversea colonies

years in the colonies had left their imprint.

this colony was virtually self-subsistent, in management methods as in food.

the eremitic element in the life of a religious colony;

There lived a colony of bees on the tree.

A colony of seals lay basking in the sun.

All the bees in the colony are genetically related.

woodlands that once harboured a colony of red deer.

Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor ;Interleukin-5 ;differentiation ;

They had thought that the new colony would be a paradise, but they were soon disillusioned.

gregarious species forage in flocks from colonies or roosts.

I've lost three umbrellas this year. Britain lost its American colonies in a revolution.

Real-world Examples

They call the problem " colony collapse disorder."

Source: VOA Special August 2015 Collection

The colonies are mostly young tree hoppers.

Source: Insect Kingdom Season 2 (Original Soundtrack Version)

In China, she visited a leper colony.

Source: Women Who Changed the World

And they set up colonies in greenland.

Source: Humanity: The Story of All of Us

By 1981, there was only one colony of ferrets living in Wyoming.

Source: TED Talks (Video Version) Bilingual Selection

For over 400 years it was a Portuguese colony.

Source: Listening Digest

This female pangolin is hunting an ant colony.

Source: VOA Standard English_Africa

France has focused its aid on its former colonies.

Source: Economic Crash Course

The biggest swift colony in China.

Source: Beautiful China

It was a British Colony until it gained independence in 1983.

Source: CNN 10 Student English May 2020 Collection

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