{
    "term": "colony",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a country or an area that is governed by people from another, more powerful, country",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "former British colonies"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the Declaration of Independence of the 13 colonies and the creation of the United States"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Britain's overseas colonies"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Settlers established a new colony in the early 18th century."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the former Portuguese colony of Macao"
                },
                {
                    "text": "By 1733, the British had set up a total of 13 colonies in North America."
                },
                {
                    "text": "East Timor was a former Portuguese colony."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["History"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["overseas", "American", "British"],
                "verb + colony": ["establish"],
                "preposition": ["in a/​the colony"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a group of people who go to live permanently in a colony",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The colony was/were looking forward to fifty or more years of autonomy."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["overseas", "American", "British"],
                "verb + colony": ["establish"],
                "preposition": ["in a/​the colony"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a group of people from the same place or with the same work or interests who live in a particular city or country or who live together",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The American colony in Paris was/were looking forward to this event."
                },
                {
                    "text": "an artists’ colony"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "a small town set up by an employer or an organization for its workers",
            "labels": "(Indian English)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "a group of plants or animals that live together or grow in the same place",
            "labels": "(biology)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a colony of ants"
                },
                {
                    "text": "A colony of seals was/were lying about on the rocks."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a bird colony"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The birds nest in huge colonies."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Some of the insects will leave to form a new colony."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Animals"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["huge", "large", "thriving"],
                "verb + colony": ["form"],
                "preposition": ["in a/​the colony", "colony of"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkɒləni/",
                "audio": "co/colony/colony__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkɑːləni/",
                "audio": "co/colony/colony__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (denoting a settlement formed mainly of retired soldiers, acting as a garrison in newly conquered territory in the Roman Empire): from Latin colonia ‘settlement, farm’, from colonus ‘settler, farmer’, from colere ‘cultivate’."
}