colony

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɒl.ə.ni/|/ˈkɔlənɪj/    美 /ˈkɔl.ə.ni/|/ˈkɑ.lə.ni/|/ˈkɔl.ə.ni/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A geographical area under the remote control of a country; especially to extract resources or exploit labor from that area.
    — Much of the eastern United States was formerly a British colony; other areas were French, Spanish, Dutch, or Swedish colonies.
  2. A group of people who settle an area and maintain ties to their country of origin.
    — a colony of British expats in Spain
  3. A group of people with similar interests, occupations, or characteristics, living in a particular area; the area such people occupy.
    — a nudist colony; the statue was put up right in the middle of the artist colony
  4. A group of organisms of same or different species living together in close association.
    — ant colony; coral colony
  5. An apartment complex or neighborhood. India
    — Our colony is quite small, but each apartment is large.
  6. A local group of Beaver Scouts.
  7. A potential new chapter of a fraternity or sorority awaiting official recognition from their headquarters.
    — That weekend in 2013, fraternity members from Baruch, a commuter school in Manhattan whose Pi Delta Psi colony was only about three years old, gathered in a large rental house in Tunkhannock Township, Pa. Early on a frigid morning, Mr. Deng followed the other pledges in putting on a blindfold and backpack.
动词 v.
  1. To colonize. obsolete,rare,transitive
    — Such black Attendants Colonied thy Cell, / But for thy Preſence, Car’sbrook had been Hell.

词形变化

colonies plural colonies present,singular,third-person colonying participle,present colonied participle,past colonied past

词汇关系

下位词
trading post factory fondaco
衍生词
ant colony artificial bee colony autocolony bird colony Cape Colony Colony of Virginia crown colony Delft Colony freedom colony leper colony Lost Colony lunar colony macrocolony megacolony Mexican Colony microcolony monocolony neo-colony nudist colony O'Neill colony Orange River Colony paleocolony penal colony pseudocolony Roanoke Colony rolony semi-colony space colony subcolony supercolony coloner colonial colonialism coloniarch colonigenic colonise colonize colonist colony collapse disorder colony counter colony-forming unit colonyhood colony-stimulating factor granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor intercolony intracolony Jewish colony polony
相关词
Cologne Crown colony cult culture metropole

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁-e-ti
Proto-Italic *kʷelō
Latin colō
Latin colōnus
Latin colōniader.
Middle English colane
English colony
From Middle English colane, colonye, from Latin colōnia (“colony”), from colōnus (“farmer; colonist”), from colō (“till, cultivate, worship”), from earlier *quelō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”). Doublet of Cologne, Colonia, and Köln.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁-e-ti
Proto-Italic *kʷelō
Latin colō
Latin colōnus
Latin colōniader.
Middle English colane
English colony
From Middle English colane, colonye, from Latin colōnia (“colony”), from colōnus (“farmer; colonist”), from colō (“till, cultivate, worship”), from earlier *quelō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”). Doublet of Cologne, Colonia, and Köln.
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