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Another word for colony

Noun

  1. An area subject to rule by an outside power

    2. See also:

    politics

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Sentence Examples

  • Each colony and protectorate, including Algeria, has a separate budget.

  • In 59 B.C. a colony was established here by Caesar.

  • The colony, however, from 1821 had made a fair start in free industrial progress.

  • The colony of ants were very efficient when they all worked together.

  • The British colony sought independence from their country.

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