English words for 'Relating to or composed of multiple colonies.'
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adj
- Of or pertaining to a colony.
- of or relating to or characteristic of or inhabiting a colony
- Of or pertaining to a period when a country or territory was a colony.
- composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony
- (US) Of or relating to the original Thirteen Colonies of the USA.
- (biology) Tending to form colonies (especially of cells).
- Of or pertaining to the ideals of colonialism.
- (US) Of or relating to the style of architecture prevalent at about the time of the Revolution.
- of animals who live in colonies, such as ants
noun
noun
noun
- A colony, or a territory subject to rule by an external power.
- The status of being a legal dependent; the relationship between a dependent and their provider.
- Something dependent on, or subordinate to, something else:
- A state of dependence; a refusal to exercise initiative.
- A dependence on a habit-forming substance such as a drug or alcohol.
- (computing) An external component whose functionality is relied on.
- (computing) Reliance on the functionality provided by some other, external component.
- being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)
- the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else
- a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
adj
- composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony
- composed of more than one part
- consisting of two or more substances or ingredients or elements or parts
- (mathematics) Dealing with numbers of various denominations of quantity, or with processes more complex than the simple process.
- (music) An octave higher than originally (i.e. a compound major second is equivalent to a major ninth).
- Composed of elements; not simple.
noun
- an enclosure of residences and other building (especially in the Orient)
- (chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight
- a word (as anthropology, kilocycle, builder) consisting of any of various combinations of words, combining forms, or affixes.
- a whole formed by a union of two or more elements or parts
- (chemistry) A substance formed by chemical bonding of two or more elements in definite proportions by weight.
- (linguistics) A lexeme that consists of more than one stem.
- Anything made by combining several things.
- An enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined.
- (linguistics) A lexeme that consists of more than one stem or affix, e.g. "bookshop", "high school" or "non-standard".
- Ellipsis of compound exercise.
- (rail transport) A compound locomotive, a steam locomotive with both high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders.
- An enclosure for secure storage.
- (law) A legal procedure whereby a criminal or delinquent avoids prosecution in a court in exchange for his payment to the authorities of a financial penalty or fine.
- (by extension, Philippines) A group of buildings where members of the same extended family live together.
- A group of buildings situated close together, e.g. for a school or block of offices.
verb
- put or add together
- make more intense, stronger, or more marked
- calculate principal and interest
- create by mixing or combining
- combine so as to form a whole; mix
- (intransitive, finance) To increase in value with interest, where the interest is earned on both the principal sum and prior earned interest.
- (intransitive) To come to terms of agreement; to settle by a compromise.
- (transitive) To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement.
- (transitive) To form (a resulting mixture) by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; to mingle with something else.
- (horse racing, intransitive) Of a horse: to fail to maintain speed.
- (transitive, see usage notes) To worsen a situation.
- (transitive, law) To settle by agreeing on less than the claim, or on different terms than those stipulated.
noun
- (historical) A colony established thus.
- a newly established colony (especially in the colonization of North America)
- An area where trees are planted, either for commercial purposes, or to adorn an estate.
- A large farm; estate or area of land designated for agricultural growth. Often includes housing for the owner and workers.
- (historical) The importation of large numbers of workers and soldiers to displace the local population, such as in medieval Ireland and in the Americas; colonization.
- garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth
- an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas)
noun
- One who establishes a colony; one who joins a colony or is born and raised there.
- One who makes a group or place into a colony; one who establishes a colonial relationship.
- One who intrudes and takes over.
- (derogatory, neologism) A white person.
- (ecology) A species that establishes itself in a new area.
- someone who helps to found a colony
verb
- (intransitive) To begin a colony or colonies.
- (transitive) To settle (a place) with colonists, and hence make (a place) into a colony.
- (transitive) To settle (a group of people, a species, or the like) in a place as a colony.
- (transitive) To settle among and establish control over (the indigenous people of an area).
- (transitive, social sciences, by extension) To intrude into and take over (the autonomy, experience, social movement, etc, of a less powerful person or group); to commandeer or appropriate.
- settle as colonists or establish a colony (in)
- settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world
noun
- the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies
- A colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled.
- termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities
- a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it
- 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 community of people smaller than a town
- an area where a group of families live together
- something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making
- (law) A resolution of a dispute.
- The state of being settled.
- (law) A disposition of property, or the act of granting it.
- (law) A mutual agreement to end a dispute without resorting to legal proceedings, also known as an out-of-court settlement or settling out of court.
- The act of settling.
- (law) A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of legal residence.
- (archaeology) A site where people used to live together in ancient times; an ancient simple kind of village.
- (architecture) The gradual sinking of a building. Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
- A community of people living together, such as a hamlet, village, town, or city; a populated place.
- (finance) The delivery of goods by the seller and payment for them by the buyer, under a previously agreed trade or transaction or contract entered into.
- (India, historical) An estate or district in Anglo-Indian Bengal where, instead of taking a quota of the year's produce, the government took a fixed sum several times a year from the local cultivators.
adj
noun
adj
- of or relating to a territory
- displaying territoriality; defending a territory from intruders
- belonging to the territory of any state or ruler
- (often capitalized) Organized for home defence - such as the Territorial Army.
- Of, relating to, or restricted to a specific geographic area, or territory.
- Of or relating to geography or territory.
- (biology) Displaying territoriality.
noun
noun
noun
noun
- A colony, or a territory subject to rule by an external power.
- The status of being a legal dependent; the relationship between a dependent and their provider.
- Something dependent on, or subordinate to, something else:
- A state of dependence; a refusal to exercise initiative.
- A dependence on a habit-forming substance such as a drug or alcohol.
- (computing) An external component whose functionality is relied on.
- (computing) Reliance on the functionality provided by some other, external component.
- being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)
- the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else
- a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
noun
- (historical) A colony established thus.
- a newly established colony (especially in the colonization of North America)
- An area where trees are planted, either for commercial purposes, or to adorn an estate.
- A large farm; estate or area of land designated for agricultural growth. Often includes housing for the owner and workers.
- (historical) The importation of large numbers of workers and soldiers to displace the local population, such as in medieval Ireland and in the Americas; colonization.
- garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth
- an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas)
noun
- One who establishes a colony; one who joins a colony or is born and raised there.
- One who makes a group or place into a colony; one who establishes a colonial relationship.
- One who intrudes and takes over.
- (derogatory, neologism) A white person.
- (ecology) A species that establishes itself in a new area.
- someone who helps to found a colony
noun
- the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies
- A colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled.
- termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities
- a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it
- 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 community of people smaller than a town
- an area where a group of families live together
- something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making
- (law) A resolution of a dispute.
- The state of being settled.
- (law) A disposition of property, or the act of granting it.
- (law) A mutual agreement to end a dispute without resorting to legal proceedings, also known as an out-of-court settlement or settling out of court.
- The act of settling.
- (law) A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of legal residence.
- (archaeology) A site where people used to live together in ancient times; an ancient simple kind of village.
- (architecture) The gradual sinking of a building. Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
- A community of people living together, such as a hamlet, village, town, or city; a populated place.
- (finance) The delivery of goods by the seller and payment for them by the buyer, under a previously agreed trade or transaction or contract entered into.
- (India, historical) An estate or district in Anglo-Indian Bengal where, instead of taking a quota of the year's produce, the government took a fixed sum several times a year from the local cultivators.
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To begin a colony or colonies.
- (transitive) To settle (a place) with colonists, and hence make (a place) into a colony.
- (transitive) To settle (a group of people, a species, or the like) in a place as a colony.
- (transitive) To settle among and establish control over (the indigenous people of an area).
- (transitive, social sciences, by extension) To intrude into and take over (the autonomy, experience, social movement, etc, of a less powerful person or group); to commandeer or appropriate.
- settle as colonists or establish a colony (in)
- settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world
adj
- Of or pertaining to a colony.
- of or relating to or characteristic of or inhabiting a colony
- Of or pertaining to a period when a country or territory was a colony.
- composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony
- (US) Of or relating to the original Thirteen Colonies of the USA.
- (biology) Tending to form colonies (especially of cells).
- Of or pertaining to the ideals of colonialism.
- (US) Of or relating to the style of architecture prevalent at about the time of the Revolution.
- of animals who live in colonies, such as ants
noun
adj
- composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony
- composed of more than one part
- consisting of two or more substances or ingredients or elements or parts
- (mathematics) Dealing with numbers of various denominations of quantity, or with processes more complex than the simple process.
- (music) An octave higher than originally (i.e. a compound major second is equivalent to a major ninth).
- Composed of elements; not simple.
noun
- an enclosure of residences and other building (especially in the Orient)
- (chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight
- a word (as anthropology, kilocycle, builder) consisting of any of various combinations of words, combining forms, or affixes.
- a whole formed by a union of two or more elements or parts
- (chemistry) A substance formed by chemical bonding of two or more elements in definite proportions by weight.
- (linguistics) A lexeme that consists of more than one stem.
- Anything made by combining several things.
- An enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined.
- (linguistics) A lexeme that consists of more than one stem or affix, e.g. "bookshop", "high school" or "non-standard".
- Ellipsis of compound exercise.
- (rail transport) A compound locomotive, a steam locomotive with both high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders.
- An enclosure for secure storage.
- (law) A legal procedure whereby a criminal or delinquent avoids prosecution in a court in exchange for his payment to the authorities of a financial penalty or fine.
- (by extension, Philippines) A group of buildings where members of the same extended family live together.
- A group of buildings situated close together, e.g. for a school or block of offices.
verb
- put or add together
- make more intense, stronger, or more marked
- calculate principal and interest
- create by mixing or combining
- combine so as to form a whole; mix
- (intransitive, finance) To increase in value with interest, where the interest is earned on both the principal sum and prior earned interest.
- (intransitive) To come to terms of agreement; to settle by a compromise.
- (transitive) To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement.
- (transitive) To form (a resulting mixture) by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; to mingle with something else.
- (horse racing, intransitive) Of a horse: to fail to maintain speed.
- (transitive, see usage notes) To worsen a situation.
- (transitive, law) To settle by agreeing on less than the claim, or on different terms than those stipulated.
adj
noun
adj
- of or relating to a territory
- displaying territoriality; defending a territory from intruders
- belonging to the territory of any state or ruler
- (often capitalized) Organized for home defence - such as the Territorial Army.
- Of, relating to, or restricted to a specific geographic area, or territory.
- Of or relating to geography or territory.
- (biology) Displaying territoriality.