Colony vs U.S.

Colony and U.S. both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Colony	Yes	No	No	No
U.S.	Yes	No	No	No

Colony (noun)	U.S. (noun)
one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States	the executive and legislative and judicial branches of the federal government of the United States
	North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776