名詞 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
   同義詞：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
   同義詞：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、螞蟻或白蟻群體中，可繁殖并發(fā)育完全的雌蟲
2. The first child of English parents born in America. She disappeared with other members of the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island in Virginia.
   戴爾，弗吉尼亞1587－1587？第一個(gè)出生在美國的英國女該，她和弗吉尼亞的羅厄諾克島的失去殖民地的其他成員一起失蹤了
3. Britain was mandated to govern the former colony of German East Africa.
   英國受權(quán)代管德國在東非的前殖民地。
4. This country used to be a British colony in Asia.
   這個(gè)國家曾是英國在亞洲的殖民地。

col.o.ny

n.（名詞）
【復(fù)數(shù)】 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.
僑民：定居在異鄉(xiāng)的一組僑民或他們的后代，仍從屬于其祖國或同其祖國有密切關(guān)系
A territory thus settled.
僑居地：這樣定居的地區(qū)
Abbr. col.A region politically controlled by a distant country; a dependency.
縮寫 col.殖民地：政治上被一個(gè)遠(yuǎn)方國家控制的地區(qū)；屬地

A group of people with the same interests or ethnic origin concentrated in a particular area:
聚居：有著相同利益或種族血統(tǒng)的一組人，聚集在一個(gè)特殊的地區(qū)：
例句：
the American colony in Paris.
巴黎的美國人聚居區(qū)

The area occupied by such a group.
聚居地：被這樣的群體占據(jù)的地區(qū)
A group of people who have been institutionalized in a relatively remote area:
隔離群：被送到一個(gè)相對偏僻的地方作專門治療的一群人：
例句：
an island penal colony.
一個(gè)島的流放群體

Ecology A group of the same kind of animals, plants, or one-celled organisms living or growing together.
【生態(tài)學(xué)】 群體：一群生活或生長在一起的同種動物、植物或單細(xì)胞有機(jī)體
Microbiology A visible growth of microorganisms, usually in a solid or semisolid nutrient medium.
【微生物學(xué)】 一種可看得見的微生物的發(fā)育生長，通常在固體或半固體的營養(yǎng)媒質(zhì)中

來源：
Middle English colonie
中古英語 colonie
from Latin colônia
源自 拉丁語 colônia
from colônus [settler]
源自 colônus [定居者]
from colere [to cultivate] * see k wel-
源自 colere [栽培] *參見 k wel-