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a country or an area that is governed by people from another, more powerful, country 殖民地 former British colonies 前英国殖民地 the Declaration of Independence of the 13 colonies and the creation of the United States 13个殖民地独立宣言和美国的创立
Extra ExamplesTopics Historyb2Britain's overseas colonies 英国的海外殖民地 Settlers established a new colony in the early 18th century. 移民在 18 世纪早期建立了一个新的殖民地。 the former Portuguese colony of Macao 前葡萄牙殖民地澳门 By 1733, the British had set up a total of 13 colonies in North America. 到1733年，英国人已在北美建立了总共13个殖民地。 East Timor was a former Portuguese colony. 东帝汶以前是葡萄牙的殖民地。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- overseas
- American
- British
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- establish
- in a/the colony
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a group of people who go to live permanently in a colony 殖民地定居者群体 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- overseas
- American
- British
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- establish
- in a/the colony
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a group of people from the same place or with the same work or interests who live in a particular city or country or who live together （来自同一地方，职业或兴趣相同的）聚居人群 the American colony in Paris 聚居巴黎的美国侨民 an artists’ colony 聚居的艺术家
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a small town set up by an employer or an organization for its workers （雇主或机构设立的）职工城，职工居住区 - [countable + singular or plural verb] (
biology 生物 a group of plants or animals that live together or grow in the same place （同地生长的植物或动物）群体，集落，群 a colony of ants 蚁群 a bird colony 鸟群
Extra ExamplesTopics Animalsc1The birds nest in huge colonies. 这些鸟大群大群地巢居。 Some of the insects will leave to form a new colony. 其中一些昆虫会离群去组成一个新的群体。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- huge
- large
- thriving
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- form
- in a/the colony
- colony of
Word Originlate 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’.