Colony vs. Polis

Colonynoun

A governmental unit created on land of another country owned by colonists from a country.

Polisnoun

(historical) A Greek city-state.

Colonynoun

A settlement of emigrants who move to a new place, but remain culturally tied to their place of origin

Polisnoun

The police.

Colonynoun

Region or governmental unit created by another country and generally ruled by another country.

‘Bermuda is a crown colony of Great Britain.’;

Polisnoun

A police officer.

Colonynoun

(India) An apartment complex.

‘Our colony is quite small, but each apartment is large.’;

Polis

Polis (; Greek: πόλις pronounced [pólis]), plural poleis (, πόλεις [póleːs]) literally means in Greek. It defined the administrative and religious city center, as distinct from the rest of the city.

‘city’;

Colonynoun

A group of people with the same interests or ethnic origin concentrated in a particular geographic area

‘The Amana Colonies in Iowa were settled by people from Germany.’;

Colonynoun

A group of organisms of same or different species living together in close association.

‘ant colony’; ‘a colony of specialized polyps and medusoids’;

Colonynoun

A collective noun for rabbits.

Colonynoun

A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent state; as, the British colonies in America.

‘The first settlers of New England were the best of Englishmen, well educated, devout Christians, and zealous lovers of liberty. There was never a colony formed of better materials.’;

Colonynoun

The district or country colonized; a settlement.

Colonynoun

a territory subject to the ruling governmental authority of another country and not a part of the ruling country.

Colonynoun

A company of persons from the same country sojourning in a foreign city or land; as, the American colony in Paris.

Colonynoun

A number of animals or plants living or growing together, beyond their usual range.

Colonynoun

A cell family or group of common origin, mostly of unicellular organisms, esp. among the lower algæ. They may adhere in chains or groups, or be held together by a gelatinous envelope.

Colonynoun

A cluster or aggregation of zooids of any compound animal, as in the corals, hydroids, certain tunicates, etc.

Colonynoun

A community of social insects, as ants, bees, etc.

Colonynoun

a group of microorganisms originating as the descendents of one individual cell, growing on a gelled growth medium, as of gelatin or agar; especially, such a group that has grown to a sufficient number to be visible to the naked eye.

Colonynoun

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

Colonynoun

a group of animals of the same type living together

Colonynoun

one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States

Colonynoun

a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country

Colonynoun

(microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell

Colonynoun

a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country

‘Japanese forces overran the French colony of Indo-China’;

Colonynoun

a group of people living in a colony, consisting of the original settlers and their descendants and successors

‘the colony looked forward to fifty or more years of autonomy’;

Colonynoun

all the foreign countries or areas formerly under British political control

‘many poachers were exiled to the colonies’;

Colonynoun

another term for Thirteen Colonies

Colonynoun

a group of people of one nationality or race living in a foreign place

‘the British colony in New York’;

Colonynoun

a place where a group of people with the same occupation or interest live together

‘a nudist colony’;

Colonynoun

a housing estate or residential community, especially one originally constructed by an employer for its workers

‘a large housing colony has already been built’; ‘one of Jaipur's largest residential colonies’;

Colonynoun

a community of animals or plants of one kind living close together or forming a physically connected structure

‘a colony of seals’;

Colonynoun

a group of fungi or bacteria grown from a single spore or cell on a culture medium.

Colony

In political science, a colony is a territory subject to a form of foreign rule. Though dominated by the foreign colonizers, colonies remain separate from the administration of the original country of the colonizers, the metropolitan state (or ).

‘mother country’;