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COLONY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A group of organisms of the same type living or growing together
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("colony" is a kind of...):
biological group (a group of plants or animals)
Meronyms (parts of "colony"):
caste (in some social insects (such as ants) a physically distinct individual or group of individuals specialized to perform certain functions in the colony)
Derivation:
colonial (of animals who live in colonies, such as ants)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("colony" is a kind of...):
animal group (a group of animals)
Domain category:
microbiology (the branch of biology that studies microorganisms and their effects on humans)
Sense 3
Meaning:
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
Example:
the American colony in Paris
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("colony" is a kind of...):
body (a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity)
Meronyms (members of "colony"):
colonial (a resident of a colony)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "colony"):
frontier settlement; outpost (a settlement on the frontier of civilization)
Plantation (a newly established colony (especially in the colonization of North America))
proprietary colony (a colony given to a proprietor to govern (in 17th century))
Instance hyponyms:
Demerara (a former Dutch colony in South America; now a part of Guyana)
Calpe; Gibraltar; Rock of Gibraltar (location of a colony of the United Kingdom on a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain; strategically important because it can control the entrance of ships into the Mediterranean; one of the Pillars of Hercules)
Plymouth Colony (colony formed by the Pilgrims when they arrived at Plymouth Rock in 1620; it was absorbed into the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1691)
New Amsterdam (a settlement established by the Dutch near the mouth of Hudson River and the southern end of Manhattan Island; annexed by the English in 1664 and renamed New York)
Derivation:
colonial (of or relating to or characteristic of or inhabiting a colony)
colonise (settle as colonists or establish a colony (in))
colonise (settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world)
colonist (a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country)
colonize (settle as colonists or establish a colony (in))
colonize (settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
Synonyms:
colony; dependency
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("colony" is a kind of...):
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "colony"):
Crown Colony (a British colony controlled by the British Crown, represented by a governor)
Instance hyponyms:
New Netherland (a Dutch colony in North America along the Hudson and lower Delaware rivers although the colony centered in New Amsterdam; annexed by the English in 1664)
Cayman Islands (a British colony in the Caribbean to the northwest of Jamaica; an international banking center)
Derivation:
colonial (of or relating to or characteristic of or inhabiting a colony)
colonist (a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated
Example:
an artists' colony
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("colony" is a kind of...):
place; property (any area set aside for a particular purpose)
Sense 6
Meaning:
One of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("Colony" is a kind of...):
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)
Instance hyponyms:
Virginia; South Carolina; Rhode Island; Pennsylvania; North Carolina; New York; New Jersey; New Hampshire; Massachusetts; Massachusetts Bay Colony; Maryland; Georgia; Delaware; Connecticut (one of the British colonies that formed the United States)
Holonyms ("Colony" is a part of...):
America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)
Derivation:
colonist (a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country)
Context examples:
The mites — which are parasites and can infect bees with viruses — proliferate easily and cause colony collapse in just years.
(Mushroom Extract Could Help Save Bees from Virus, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
I was now on a level with the crow colony, and could see into their nests.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
A derived unit of measurement of viable bacterial organisms in a unit mass of substance of interest defined as the number of billion colony forming units (10E9CFU) in one gram of substance.
(Billion Colony Forming Units per Gram, NCI Thesaurus)
A derived unit of measurement of viable bacterial organisms in a unit volume of substance of interest defined as the number of billion colony forming units (10E9CFU) in one milliliter of substance.
(Billion Colony Forming Units per Milliliter, NCI Thesaurus)
Human colony stimulating factor 1 receptor (CSF1R) gene, located at 5q33.2-q33.3, encodes macrophage colony stimulating factor I receptor protein.
(Oncogene CSF1R, NCI Thesaurus)
It is characterized by smooth, shiny colonies, a shorter generation time, and a unique phenolic glycolipid and lipo-oligosaccharide.
(Mycobacterium canetti, NCI Thesaurus)
A recombinant oncolytic adenovirus encoding the immunohematopoietic cytokine granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) with potential antineoplastic activity.
(Oncolytic Adenovirus Encoding GM-CSF, NCI Thesaurus)
This gene plays a role in the regulation of B-cell colony formation.
(PBEF1 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
Plant-derived hematopoiesis enhancer PG2 stimulates the production of numerous cytokines such as granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) and may stimulate the production of neuroendocrine hormones.
(Plant-Derived Hematopoiesis Enhancer PG2, NCI Thesaurus)
This allele, which encodes nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase protein, plays a role in pre-B-cell colony formation.
(PBEF1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
