colony vs New Netherland

colony and New Netherland both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
colony	Yes	No	No	No
New Netherland	Yes	No	No	No

colony (noun)	New Netherland (noun)
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 Dutch colony in North America along the Hudson and lower Delaware rivers although the colony centered in New Amsterdam; annexed by the English in 1664
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