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colony vs Plantation

Plantation vs colony

colony and Plantation both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
colony Yes No No No
Plantation Yes No No No
As nouns, Plantation is a hyponym of colony; that is, Plantation is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than colony:
  • 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
  • Plantation: a newly established colony (especially in the colonization of North America)
Other hyponyms of colony include frontier settlement, outpost, proprietary colony.
colony (noun) Plantation (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 newly established colony (especially in the colonization of North America)
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
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