colony – English noun declension

English noun forms of colony

Noun: colony
Singularcolony
Pluralcolonies

Sample Sentences

  • Much of the eastern United States was formerly a British colony; other areas were French, Spanish, Dutch, or Swedish colonies.
  • Bermuda is a crown colony of Great Britain.
  • And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforeſaid, That in every Town in the Colony, where Bread is Baken for Sale, there ſhall be Choſen one Clerk of the Market, or more, as each Town ſhall find needful, at their Annual Election of Town Officers, who ſhall duly be Engaged, to the faithful performance of ſaid Office, as other Town Officers are ;[…] [1719, “An ACT, Stating the due Aſſize of Bread”, in The Charter Granted by His Majeſty, King Charles the Second, to the Colony of Rhode-Iſland, and Providence-plantations in America, John Allen, page 59:]
  • […] money problems and refusal to supply them with British coins were two big reasons why the thirteen colonies rebelled and declared their independence. [1939, Frederic Majer, Our Country's Money:]
  • a colony of British expats in Spain
  • The Amana Colonies in Iowa were settled by people from Germany.
  • The question of ecclesiastical jurisdiction had to be answered before the colony sailed for East Florida. [2006, Kenneth H. Beeson Jr., Fromajadas and Indigo: The Minorcan Colony in Florida, Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN:]
  • a nudist colony; the statue was put up right in the middle of the artist colony
  • a leper colony on the outskirts of town; most buildings in the penal colony were made of concrete
  • ant colony; coral colony
  • a colony of specialized polyps and medusoids
  • colonies of stem cells
  • In the small hours came the fetid smell of a flying-fox colony. [1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 64:]
  • Our colony is quite small, but each apartment is large.
  • That weekend in 2013, fraternity members from Baruch, a commuter school in Manhattan whose Pi Delta Psi colony was only about three years old, gathered in a large rental house in Tunkhannock Township, Pa. Early on a frigid morning, Mr. Deng followed the other pledges in putting on a blindfold and backpack. [2018 January 7, Rick Rojas, “A Partial Win for Prosecutors Who Targeted Fraternity After Student’s Death”, in New York Times:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-eti
4. Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁eti
5. Proto-Italic *kʷelō
6. Latin colō
7. Latin colōnus
8. Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós
9. Proto-Italic *-ijos
10. Proto-Italic *-ios
11. Old Latin -ios
12. Latin -ius
13. Latin -ia
14. Latin colōniader.
15. Middle English colane
16. English colony
17. From Middle English colane, colonye, from Latin colōnia (“colony”), from colōnus (“farmer; colonist”), from colō (“till, cultivate, worship”), from earlier *quelō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”). Doublet of Cologne, Colonia, and Köln. See: Middle English Nouns 'colane', Latin Nouns 'colōnia'.

Verbs referencing "colony"

Polish Nouns kolonia.