Phrase Hound found 16 phrases and 11 compound words that contain colonies. The most common are listed below. Open colonies in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 16
- Thirteen ColoniesThe thirteen British colonies that successfully revolted in 1775-1781, forming the nucleus of the United States.
- United ColoniesThe Thirteen Colonies that became the United States of America.
- Amana ColoniesSeven villages on 26,000 acres in Iowa County in east-central Iowa, United States, originally built and settled by German Radical Pietists.
- ant coloniesplural of ant colony: A community of ants that live and work together as one organized social group, including a queen, workers, and developing young.
- bird coloniesplural of bird colony: A large congregation of one or more bird species that nest or roost in proximity at a particular location.
- crown coloniesplural of crown colony: A British colony ruled by a governor appointed by the monarch.
- freedom coloniesplural of freedom colony: An African-American municipality or community built by freedmen, former slaves who were emancipated during and after the American Civil War.
- space coloniesplural of space colony: A permanent human settlement located beyond the surface of Earth, such as on a space station, or on another celestial body such as the Moon or Mars.
- penal coloniesplural of penal colony: A colonial territory used (mainly) for the detention and forced labor of criminals, typically where free labor is desperately scarce.
- leper coloniesplural of leper colony: An isolated community used to house lepers, usually in permanent quarantine from the rest of society.
- lunar coloniesplural of lunar colony: A colony on the Moon.
- neo-coloniesplural of neo-colony: A country, especially a former colony, controlled or dominated by another country, by the use of economic pressure, political suppression and cultural dominance.
- semi-coloniesplural of semi-colony: A country which is officially an independent and sovereign nation, but in reality dependent and dominated by one or more countries.
- endogenous erythroid coloniesplural of endogenous erythroid colony: A diagnostic laboratory finding where erythroid progenitor cells from a patient’s bone marrow or peripheral blood grow into colonies in vitro without the addition of exogenous erythropoietin, used as …
- O'Neill coloniesplural of O'Neill colony: A proposed space settlement consisting of two cylinders that rotate to provide artificial gravity via centrifugal force.
- nudist coloniesplural of nudist colony: A locality in which a group of nudists live temporarily or permanently separated from the rest of the community
Compound words 11
- subcoloniesplural of subcolony: A colony belonging to another colony.
- autocoloniesplural of autocolony: A daughter colony formed inside a cell of a parent colony.
- macrocoloniesplural of macrocolony: A relatively large-scale colony (of bacteria etc)
- megacoloniesplural of megacolony: An extremely large colony of organisms.
- microcoloniesplural of microcolony: A microscopic colony of cells (especially of bacteria)
- monocoloniesplural of monocolony: A monoclonal colony
- neocoloniesplural of neocolony: A country, especially a former colony, controlled or dominated by another country, by the use of economic pressure, political suppression and cultural dominance.
- paleocoloniesplural of paleocolony: A prehistoric colony (of animals or birds)
- pseudocoloniesplural of pseudocolony: A cluster of living things (cells, people, etc.) that has only some of the characteristics of a colony
- semicoloniesplural of semicolony: A partly colonial settlement.