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
English: colony, settlement
Bahasa: penempatan
koloniBahasa Indonesia
colony, colonial, Colony, compound, dependency
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#7,411 of the corpus · 10.2 per million words · 43,719 occurrences
From kolon (…-i) · rare, #21,352
Noun
A geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
English: colony, dependency
Bahasa: daerah takluk
A region marked off for administrative or other purposes
English: district, territory, territorial dominion, dominion
Bahasa: daerah, wilayah, kawasan, distrik
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3 more noun senses
One of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
English: Colony
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A place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated
English: colony
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(microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
English: colony
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Adjective
Of animals who live in colonies, such as ants
English: colonial
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Composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony
English: colonial, compound
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