colony - Meaning in Konkani

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colony - Meaning in Konkani

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Definitions and Meaning of colony in English

Colony noun

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

   Synonyms

   Colony, Colony

colony noun

1. a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together
2. (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell

3. 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

   Synonyms

   settlement, settlement

   Example

   • "the American colony in Paris"
4. a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country

   Synonyms

   dependency

5. a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated

   Examples

   • "a nudist colony"
   • "an artists' colony"

Description

A colony is a territory subject to a form of foreign rule. Though dominated by the foreign colonizers, the rule remains separate to the original country of the colonizers, the metropolitan state, which together have often been organized as colonial empires, particularly with the development of modern imperialism and its colonialism. This coloniality and possibly colonial administrative separation, while often blurred, makes colonies neither annexed or integrated territories nor client states. Colonies contemporarily are identified and organized as not sufficiently self-governed dependent territories. Other past colonies have become either sufficiently incorporated and self-governed, or independent, with some to a varying degree dominated by remaining colonial settler societies or neocolonialism.

Also see "Colony" on Wikipedia

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