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Plantation vs colony

colony vs Plantation

Plantation and colony both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
Plantation Yes No No No
colony Yes No No No
As nouns, colony is a hypernym of Plantation; that is, colony is a word with a broader meaning than Plantation:
  • Plantation: a newly established colony (especially in the colonization of North America)
  • colony: 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
Other hypernyms of Plantation include settlement.
Plantation (noun) colony (noun)
a newly established colony (especially in the colonization of North America) 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 group of organisms of the same type living or growing together
(microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated
Difference between Plantation and colony

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