PROPRIETARY COLONY

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A colony given to a proprietor to govern (in 17th century)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("proprietary colony" is a kind of...):

colony; settlement (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)

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