colony vs proprietary colony

proprietary colony vs colony

colony and proprietary colony both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
colony	Yes	No	No	No
proprietary colony	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, proprietary colony is a hyponym of colony; that is, proprietary colony 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
proprietary colony: a colony given to a proprietor to govern (in 17th century)

Other hyponyms of colony include frontier settlement, outpost, Plantation.

colony (noun)	proprietary colony (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 colony given to a proprietor to govern (in 17th century)
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 colony and proprietary colony

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