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colonies
We have found lemma(root) word of colonies : colony.
Definitions
[ˈkɒləni], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country
(e.g: Japanese forces overran the French colony of Indo-China)
- a group of people of one nationality or race living in a foreign place
(e.g: the British colony in New York)
- a community of animals or plants of one kind living close together or forming a physically connected structure
(e.g: a colony of seals)
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Origin
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late Middle English (denoting a settlement formed mainly of retired soldiers, acting as a garrison in newly conquered territory in the Roman Empire): from Latin colonia ‘settlement, farm’, from colonus ‘settler, farmer’, from colere ‘cultivate’
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