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colony vs frontier settlement

frontier settlement vs colony

colony and frontier settlement both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
colony Yes No No No
frontier settlement Yes No No No
As nouns, frontier settlement is a hyponym of colony; that is, frontier settlement 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
  • frontier settlement: a settlement on the frontier of civilization
Other hyponyms of colony include outpost, Plantation, proprietary colony.
colony (noun) frontier settlement (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 settlement on the frontier of civilization
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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