COLONIES

Meaning of COLONIES in English

(pl. ) of Colony

Webster's English dictionary. Английский словарь Webster. 2012

COLONIES — ( pl. ) of Colony
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
COLONIES — pl of colony.
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COLONIES — ➡ American Revolution
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COLONIES — Колонии
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COLONIES — Колония
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PENAL COLONY — Distant or overseas settlement established to punish criminals with forced labour and isolation from society. Such colonies were developed mostly …
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DECOLONIZATION — Process by which colonies become independent of the colonizing country. Decolonization was gradual and peaceful for some British colonies largely …
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COLONY — I In antiquity, any of the new settlements established in territory conquered by the Greeks (8th–6th century BC), Alexander the …
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COLONY — /kol"euh nee/ , n. , pl. colonies . 1. a group of people who leave their native country to form …
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UTOPIA
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TERMITE
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SMUGGLING — conveyance of things by stealth, particularly the clandestine movement of goods to evade customs duties or import or export restrictions. …
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PENAL COLONY — distant or overseas settlement established for punishing criminals by forced labour and isolation from society. Although a score of nations …
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MOSS ANIMAL
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COLONY — in zoology, a group of organisms of one species that live and interact closely with each other in an organized …
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COLONIALISM
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BEEKEEPING — the care and manipulation of colonies of honeybees (Apis species) so as to enable them to produce and store a …
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VOLVOX — a freshwater, chlorophyll-containing organism that lives in colonies; it is assigned by zoologists to the flagellate protozoan order Volvocida and …
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UNITED STATES WAR OF INDEPENDENCE — also called American Revolution or American Revolutionary War (177583), insurrection by which 13 of Great Britain's North American colonies won …
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT — any of the 90 trial courts of general jurisdiction in the U.S. federal judicial system. Each state and the District …
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LATIN AMERICA, HISTORY OF — history of the region from the pre-Columbian period and including colonization by the Spanish and Portuguese beginning in the 15th …
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INDEPENDENCE, DECLARATION OF — in U.S. history, document that was approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, and that announced the separation …
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GREAT AWAKENING — religious revival in the British American colonies mainly between about 1720 and the '40s. It was a part of the …
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FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN, — born Jan. 17 [Jan. 6, Old Style], 1706, Boston died April 17, 1790, Philadelphia pseudonym Richard Saunders American printer and …
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COINS OF THE UNITED STATES — Coins of the United States The first coins struck in the North American Colonies were silver shillings, sixpences, and threepences, …
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BRITISH EMPIRE — a worldwide system of dependenciescolonies, protectorates, and other territoriesthat over a span of some three centuries was brought under the …
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BOSTON TEA PARTY — (Dec. 16, 1773), incident in which 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from …
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ALBANIA, FLAG OF — national flag consisting of a red field (background) with a black two-headed eagle in its centre. Its width-to-length ratio is …
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