colony怎么翻译及发音

名词 可数名词：

1.殖民地

2.殖民地定居者群体

3.（来自同一地方，职业或兴趣相同的）聚居人群

4.（雇主或机构设立的）职工城，职工居住区

5.（同地生长的植物或动物）群，群体，集落

词形变化

复数colonies

英语解释

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

a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country

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

a group of animals of the same type living together

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