1. colony

noun. ['ˈkɑːləni'] 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.

Rhymes with Colony

• aborigine
• accompany
• agony
• albany
• androgyny
• anemone
• anthony
• antigone
• antony
• balcony
• bethany
• bimini
• botany
• boustany
• brittany
• cacophony
• canonie
• carmany
• co.
• compagnie

Sentences with colony

1. Adjective
The cells store the roughly 40 pounds of honey a typically colony needs to survive the winter.

2. Noun, singular or mass
They also dispose of any garbage found in the colony in this way.

Quotes about colony

1. You and I are part of the colony of heaven. Right now, we may reside here on earth, but our passport indicates that our citizenship is in heaven. We are on the earth, but not of the earth.
- Allen R. Hunt, Confessions of a Mega Church Pastor: How I Discovered the Hidden Treasures of the Catholic Church

2. colony

noun. ['ˈkɑːləni'] a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together.

3. Colony

noun. one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States.

4. colony

noun. ['ˈkɑːləni'] a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated.

5. colony

noun. ['ˈkɑːləni'] (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell.

6. colony

noun. ['ˈkɑːləni'] a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country.