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viceroyalty

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /va?s?????lti/

Noun

viceroyalty (countable and uncountable, plural viceroyalties)

  1. The office or term of service of a viceroy; viceroydom
  2. The place governed by a viceroy
    India became a viceroyalty when the British government directly annexed it in the 1850s.

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colony

English

Etymology

From Latin col?nia (colony), from col?nus (farmer; colonist), from col? (till, cultivate, worship), from earlier *quel?, from Proto-Indo-European *k?el- (to move; to turn (around)).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?k?.l?.ni/
  • (US) IPA(key): /?k?.l?.ni/, /?k?.l?.ni/

Noun

colony (plural colonies)

  1. A governmental unit created on land of another country owned by colonists from a country.
  2. A settlement of emigrants who move to a new place, but remain culturally tied to their place of origin
  3. Region or governmental unit created by another country and generally ruled by another country.
  4. (India) An apartment complex or neighborhood.
  5. A group of people with the same interests or ethnic origin concentrated in a particular geographic area
  6. (biology) A group of organisms of same or different species living together in close association.
  7. A local group of Beaver Scouts.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • Cologne (city, n.)
  • Crown colony
  • cult
  • culture

Translations

See also

  • metropole

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