English-Latvian translations for colony

• kolonija
  Turklāt Čada ir Francijas bijusī kolonija. In addition, Chad is a former colony of France.
  Gvineja-Bisava, bijusī Portugāles kolonija, ir viena no visnabadzīgākajām valstīm pasaulē. Guinea-Bissau, a former Portuguese colony, is one of the poorest countries in the world.
  Rietumsahāra ir Āfrikas pēdējā atlikusī kolonija, un tieši ANO 1966. gada rezolūcijā pirmo reizi tika ierosināts, ka šī teritorija ir jāatbrīvo no koloniālās pārvaldes. Western Sahara is Africa's last colony and it was a UN resolution in 1966 that first proposed that the territory should be freed from colonial rule.

Definition of colony

• A governmental unit created on land of another country owned by colonists from a country
• A settlement of emigrants who move to a new place, but remain culturally tied to their place of origin
• An apartment complex
• A group of people with the same interests or ethnic origin concentrated in a particular geographic area
• A group of organisms of same or different species living together in close association
• A local group of Beaver Scouts

Examples

• Bermuda is a crown colony of Great Britain
• Our colony is quite small, but each apartment is large
• The Amana Colonies in Iowa were settled by people from Germany
• ant colony
• a colony of specialized polyps and medusoids

Related words

• semi-colony
• colony collapse disorder
• colony hybridization
• penal colony
• bee colony
• crown colony
• Cape Colony
• leper colony
• ant colony