colony
[zone: 1, ipm: 362.18]
Definitions
- a country or an area that is governed by people from another, more powerful, country
Examples
- The British began to establish overseas colonies in the 16th century.
- The colonies and protectorates were included in the Imperial economic system that was constructed at Ottawa.
- Additionally, Chinese settlers established lasting colonies in the Pacific, such as Hainan or Taiwan.
- It has roused a nationalist spirit amongst the subject races and made the holding of colonies very much more difficult.
- In 1808, Sierra Leone was designated an official British colony for freed slaves.
Collocations
- self-govern [score: 10.31, freq: 120] (the self-governing colonies)
- redundant [score: 10.26, freq: 10] (redundant colonies)
- American [score: 9.85, freq: 278] (the American colonies)
- establish [score: 9.57, freq: 182] (establish colonies)
- British [score: 9.28, freq: 440] (the British colonies)
- former [score: 9.28, freq: 179] (former colonies)
- Crown [score: 9.21, freq: 111] (Crown colonies)
- Australian [score: 9.2, freq: 108] (the Australian colonies)
- African [score: 9.04, freq: 110] (African colonies)
- prosperous [score: 9.01, freq: 5] (prosperous colonies)
- Dutch [score: 8.69, freq: 86] (the Dutch colonies)
- overseas [score: 8.63, freq: 69] (overseas colonies)
- independent [score: 8.54, freq: 6] (independent colonies)
- English [score: 8.4, freq: 134] (the English colonies)
- German [score: 8.19, freq: 140] (German colonies)
- separate [score: 8.18, freq: 60] (separate colonies)
- sugar [score: 7.96, freq: 41] (the sugar colonies)
- West [score: 7.92, freq: 41] (West Indian colonies)
- Spanish [score: 7.92, freq: 59] (the Spanish colonies)
- govern [score: 7.92, freq: 30] (governing colonies)
- settler [score: 7.89, freq: 38] (white settler colonies)
- acquire [score: 7.82, freq: 34] (acquire a colony)
- North [score: 7.74, freq: 35] (the North American colonies)
- unite [score: 7.61, freq: 29] (an attempt to unite the British Caribbean colonies under one government)
- develop [score: 7.57, freq: 24] (developed colonies)
- conquer [score: 7.56, freq: 27] (the conquered colonies)
- tax [score: 7.48, freq: 16] (to tax the colonies)
- settle [score: 7.14, freq: 19] (colonies settled)
- constitute [score: 6.92, freq: 14] (colonial empire constituted the overseas colonies)
Thesaurus
- country [score: 0.324, freq: 27816]
- province [score: 0.314, freq: 9133]
- empire [score: 0.313, freq: 21781]
- territory [score: 0.31, freq: 7765]
- state [score: 0.303, freq: 21685]
- nation [score: 0.293, freq: 15132]
- city [score: 0.278, freq: 15013]
- India [score: 0.275, freq: 9005]
- kingdom [score: 0.272, freq: 7611]
- land [score: 0.263, freq: 11467]
- government [score: 0.259, freq: 28006]
- people [score: 0.258, freq: 29977]
- France [score: 0.257, freq: 22227]
- Britain [score: 0.255, freq: 11685]
- island [score: 0.253, freq: 5364]
- England [score: 0.251, freq: 16841]
- dominion [score: 0.248, freq: 3864]
- town [score: 0.248, freq: 7812]
- Canada [score: 0.241, freq: 5543]
- Germany [score: 0.238, freq: 11379]