colony
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
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
the American colony in Paris
Types & categories
- body hypernym
- frontier settlement hyponym
- Plantation hyponym
- proprietary colony hyponym
- Demerara instance hyponym
- Gibraltar instance hyponym
- Plymouth Colony instance hyponym
- New Amsterdam instance hyponym
Parts & wholes
- colonial member meronym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 noun
a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together
Types & categories
- biological group hypernym
Parts & wholes
- caste part meronym
Related & opposite
- colonial derivation
Sense 3 noun
a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated
a nudist colony
Types & categories
- place hypernym
Sense 4 noun
a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
Types & categories
- geographical area hypernym
- Crown Colony hyponym
- Cayman Islands instance hyponym
- New Netherland instance hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 5 noun
(microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
Types & categories
- animal group hypernym
Related & opposite
- microbiology domain topic
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | settler |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | settle |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | colonize |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | settle |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | settle |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | colonize |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | colonial |
| 1 | member meronym | Parts & wholes | colonial |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | body |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | frontier settlement |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | Plantation |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | proprietary colony |
| 1 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Demerara |
| 1 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Gibraltar |
| 1 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Plymouth Colony |
| 1 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | New Amsterdam |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | colonial |
| 2 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | caste |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | biological group |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | place |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | settler |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | subject |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | colonial |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | geographical area |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | Crown Colony |
| 4 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Cayman Islands |
| 4 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | New Netherland |
| 5 | domain topic | Related & opposite | microbiology |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | animal group |