geographic area vs colony

colony vs geographic area

geographic area and colony both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
geographic area	Yes	No	No	No
colony	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, colony is a hyponym of geographic area; that is, colony is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than geographic area:

geographic area: a demarcated area of the Earth
colony: a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country

Other hyponyms of geographic area include soil, territory, dependency, semidesert, narco-state, place, property, basin, catchment area, catchment basin, drainage area, drainage basin, river basin, watershed, environs, purlieu, geographical zone, zone, environment, environs, surround, surroundings, dust bowl, hemisphere, flashpoint, hot spot, hotspot, trouble spot, panhandle, country, rural area, sphere, sphere of influence, field, settlement, parcel, parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, tract, populated area, urban area, wild, wilderness, killing field, northern Europe, French region, Baltic Republic, Baltic State, Colony, Dar al-Islam, House of Islam, Dar al-harb, House of War.

geographic area (noun)	colony (noun)
a demarcated area of the Earth	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

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