COLONY

Colony

In politics and history, a colony is a territory under the immediate political control of a state, distinct from the home territory of the sovereign. For colonies in antiquity, city-states would often found their own colonies. Some colonies were historically countries, while others were territories without definite statehood from their inception. The metropolitan state is the state that owns the colony. In Ancient Greece, the city that founded a colony was called the metropolis. Mother country is a reference to the metropolitan state from the point of view of citizens who live in its colony. There is a United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories.

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colony

Noun

  1. A settlement of emigrants who move to a new place, but remain culturally tied to their original place of origin
  2. Region or governmental unit created by another country and generally ruled by another country.
  3. A group of people with the same interests or ethnic origin concentrated in a particular geographic area
  4. A group of organisms of same or different species living together in close association.
  5. A collective noun for rabbits.


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