colony

[ˈkɑːləni]

Definition:
1. A country or an area that is governed by people from another, more powerful, country.
2. A group of animals of the same type living together.
3. A geographical area politically controlled by a distant country.

Use 'colony' in a sentence:

1. They tell the story of our colony, our history.
2. Meerkat babies may be the most adorable creatures in southern Africa, but their colony mates manage to stop spoiling them after only a few months.
3. We know that the first colony that the Greeks established was in the Bay of Naples on the island of Ischia.
4. Miller visited a Texas gas company that has successfully applied formulas based on ant colony behaviour to "optimise its factories and route its trucks".
5. He said the move would definitely stem the haemorrhage of talent and enterprise from the colony.
6. The caterpillars feed in large colonies.
7. This event marked the successful revolt/ rebellion of the colonies.
8. In 1932, he established a school and artists' colony in Stone City, Iowa.
9. The immigrant colony is frequently nothing more than a transplanted village, for Americas actually has been colonized not by races or by nationalities, but by villages.
10. The first English settlers to establish a permanent colony in America did it not at Plymouth but along the shore of the James River west of Chesapeake Bay.
11. I therefore sentence the human to live and work in the colony.
12. This was part of the program to ease him into the colony, to prepare him for the future.
13. A biologist at Stanford University showed me that nothing an ant does makes any sense except in terms of the whole colony.
14. He was probably stationed in this provincial trading port, founded in 46 B. C. as a colony for veterans of the Roman army.
15. The scientists tracked white storks from different colonies in Europe and Africa.
16. These nations were less interested in changing it into a colony than in exploring it.
17. In 1861, they managed to place fourteen women in paid positions in the colonies.
18. I use the word "colony" because that's what we have for all such establishments of the kind we're talking about.
19. The newly-occupied Italian colony of Libya rose in revolt in 1914.
20. Puerto Rico, though it calls itself a Commonwealth, is really a self-governing American colony.
21. Unfortunately, our homes are very attractive to ants, because it provides everything the colony needs to survive, such as food, water, and shelter.
22. In ponds closest to the colony, the results showed there were far more pollutants than in ponds less affected by the birds.
23. How many foragers does the colony need today?
24. People in this area are in fact French citizens because it has been a colony of the French Republic since 1946.
25. To confirm the diagnosis, the hospital laboratory must culture a colony of bacteria.
26. By 1838, the abolitionists had shamed parliament into ending slavery in British colonies.
27. This island is a colony; however, in most matters, it is autonomous and receives no orders from the mother country.
28. Where we use sound and sight to communicate, ants depend primarily on pheromone, chemicals sent out by individuals and smelled or tasted by fellow members of their colony.
29. They came up with a computer model, based on the self-organising principles of an ant colony.
30. One of my favorite examples is the colony on the south shore of the Bosporus, which is called Chalcedon.
31. When an individual ant comes under attack or is dying, it sends out an alarm pheromone to warn the colony to prepare for a conflict as a defense unit.
32. Well, you just have to find your place in the colony.
33. This is called a daughter colony.
34. The colonies received only a passing mention.
35. America used to be a British colony.
36. The FSB border officers should remember that when they treat us as if we were their colony.
37. "I should have sent him as ambassador to Great Britain or maybe a former British colony," he said.
38. The U.S. bacterial limit is no more than 500 colony-forming units of bacteria per milliliter of water.
39. Such is their devotion to the common good of the colony that not only soldier ants but also worker ants will sacrifice their lives to help defeat an enemy.
40. In colonies that range in size from a few hundred to tens of millions, they organize their lives with a clear division of labor.
41. Australia was originally a British colony.
42. When the lid of the nest box on an ant colony is raised, a whiff of dead cockroach wafts by.
43. Among the most spectacular sights are the great sea-bird colonies.
44. They established a colony somewhere in the 750 BC, and soon afterward, there is a colony established on the east coast of Sicily.
45. They visited an artists' colony in Paris.
46. Representatives of the colonies met in an extraordinary congress.
47. What happened to the lost colony of the Americas?
48. NASA's program also intended to study the idea of establishing a moon colony.
49. The colonies were claiming a larger measure of self-government.
50. In 1959, Singapore became a self-governing crown colony with Lee Kuan Yew from the People's Action Party (PAP) as the first Prime Minister of Singapore.
51. Different animals in the colony had different manifestations of the disease.
52. On the eve of the Revolution, the colonies produced thirty thousand tons of crude iron a year.
53. Many of our troops and officers were scattered around the world in the service of His Majesty in the colonies.
54. The Shetlands are famed for their colonies of sea birds.
55. In France's former North African colonies, anti-French feeling is growing.