colony

名词 colony:

1. 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
   同义词：settlement
2. a group of animals of the same type living together
3. one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
4. a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
   同义词：dependency
5. (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell

1. The fertile, fully developed female in a colony of social bees, ants, or termites.
   女王在群居的蜜蜂、蚂蚁或白蚁群体中，可繁殖并发育完全的雌虫
2. The first child of English parents born in America. She disappeared with other members of the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island in Virginia.
   戴尔，弗吉尼亚1587－1587？第一个出生在美国的英国女该，她和弗吉尼亚的罗厄诺克岛的失去殖民地的其他成员一起失踪了
3. Britain was mandated to govern the former colony of German East Africa.
   英国受权代管德国在东非的前殖民地。
4. This country used to be a British colony in Asia.
   这个国家曾是英国在亚洲的殖民地。

col.o.ny

n.（名词）
【复数】 col.o.nies

A group of emigrants or their descendants who settle in a distant territory but remain subject to or closely associated with the parent country.
侨民：定居在异乡的一组侨民或他们的后代，仍从属于其祖国或同其祖国有密切关系
A territory thus settled.
侨居地：这样定居的地区
Abbr. col.A region politically controlled by a distant country; a dependency.
缩写 col.殖民地：政治上被一个远方国家控制的地区；属地

A group of people with the same interests or ethnic origin concentrated in a particular area:
聚居：有着相同利益或种族血统的一组人，聚集在一个特殊的地区：
例句：
the American colony in Paris.
巴黎的美国人聚居区

The area occupied by such a group.
聚居地：被这样的群体占据的地区
A group of people who have been institutionalized in a relatively remote area:
隔离群：被送到一个相对偏僻的地方作专门治疗的一群人：
例句：
an island penal colony.
一个岛的流放群体

Ecology A group of the same kind of animals, plants, or one-celled organisms living or growing together.
【生态学】 群体：一群生活或生长在一起的同种动物、植物或单细胞有机体
Microbiology A visible growth of microorganisms, usually in a solid or semisolid nutrient medium.
【微生物学】 一种可看得见的微生物的发育生长，通常在固体或半固体的营养媒质中

来源：
Middle English colonie
中古英语 colonie
from Latin colônia
源自 拉丁语 colônia
from colônus [settler]
源自 colônus [定居者]
from colere [to cultivate] * see k wel-
源自 colere [栽培] *参见 k wel-