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- colony [ 'kɑlənɪ] [ 'kɔlənɪ]
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1.
noun
移民队，殖民团
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2.
noun
侨居地
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3.
noun
殖民地
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4.
noun
[Colony][复数形态时]（在独立战争中赢得独立并成为美国的）英属北美十三州殖民地（它们是：va.弗吉尼亚，N.Y.纽约，Mass.马萨诸塞，Conn.康涅狄格，R.I.罗德艾兰，N.H.新罕布什尔，Md.马里兰，N.J.新泽西，N.C.北卡罗来纳，S.C.南卡罗来纳，Pa.宾夕法尼亚，Del.特拉华和Ga.佐治亚）
- 5. noun （聚居于某一特定地区或地方的同国籍或同职业的）一群人；侨民
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6.
noun
同类人的聚居地
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7.
noun
[bacteriology]
菌落
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noun
[biology]
（群居在一起的类似的）一群植物或动物；集群
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9.
noun
[zoology]
群体
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1.
noun
移民队，殖民团
Collins English-English Dictionary
- colony ['kɑlənɪ]
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n
a body of people who settle in a country distant from their homeland but maintain ties with it
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2.
n
the community formed by such settlers
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3.
n
a subject territory occupied by a settlement from the ruling state
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4.
n
a community of people who form a national, racial, or cultural minority
- an artists' colony
- the American colony in London
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n
the area itself
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n
[zoology]
a group of the same type of animal or plant living or growing together, esp in large numbers
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7.
n
an interconnected group of polyps of a colonial organism
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n
[bacteriol]
a group of bacteria, fungi, etc, derived from one or a few spores, esp when grown on a culture medium
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n
[Etymology]
C16: from Latin col
o nia, from colere to cultivate, inhabit
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1.
n
a body of people who settle in a country distant from their homeland but maintain ties with it
Examples
- art colony
- 艺术界；一群艺术家 → art
- the Hungarian colony of Clevdand
- 在(美国)克利夫兰的匈牙利侨民 → colony
- an artists' colony
- 一群艺术家；艺术家的聚居地 → colony
- an artists' colony → colony
- the American colony in London → colony
- 沦为殖民地
- be reduced to the status of a colony → 沦
- 印度曾经是英国的殖民地。
- India used to be a colony belonging to Great Britain. → 殖民地
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