colony 的定义
plural col·o·nies.
- a group of people who leave their native country to form in a new land a settlement subject to, or connected with, the parent nation.
- the country or district settled or colonized: Many Western nations are former European colonies.
- any people or territory separated from but subject to a ruling power.
- the Colonies, those British colonies that formed the original 13 states of the United States: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
- a number of people coming from the same country, or speaking the same language, residing in a foreign country or city, or a particular section of it; enclave: the Polish colony in Israel;the American colony in Paris.
- any group of individuals having similar interests, occupations, etc., usually living in a particular locality; community: a colony of artists.
- the district, quarter, or dwellings inhabited by any such number or group: The Greek island is now an artists' colony.
- an aggregation of bacteria growing together as the descendants of a single cell.
- Ecology. a group of organisms of the same kind living or growing in close association.
colony 近义词
community
更多colony例句
- They believe it could explain how mole-rat colonies are able to organize and sustain themselves.
- So, queens may somehow control the “voice” with which her colony speaks.
- She saw my rigor in writing all my methods down, detailing which colonies had been picked, each with individual genetic signatures—and each one needing to be cultured, PCR’d, and genotyped.
- This tribute forced five Canarian families to be relocated to the American colonies in exchange for every ton of goods those colonies shipped back to Spain.
- He’d parked his colonies on a farm three hours north of San Francisco in January.
- Krivov was sentenced to serve four years at a general regime penal colony for his fight for freedom and human rights.
- Historically, the Puritans banned Christmas from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1659.
- He was born in the country, which was a British colony called Northern Rhodesia at the time, but his parents were not.
- I still think of America,” she once told an interviewer, “as a colony of Europe.
- And by the way, if we really are just a colony of Europe, where did the rock and roll she professed to love so much come from?
- The Majesty on high has a colony and a people on earth, which otherwise is under the supremacy of the Evil One.
- Hamo in alluding to the early cultivation of tobacco by the colony, says, that John Rolfe was the pioneer tobacco planter.
- This was in 1616, when the colony numbered only three hundred and fifty-one persons.
- Soon after that, I wrote you in regard to the condition in which we found this infant Church and Colony.
- William Penn, published in England his frame of government for the colony of Pennsylvania.