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Bermuda vs Colony - What's the difference?

bermuda | colony |

As nouns the difference between bermuda and colony

is that bermuda is bermuda shorts while colony is a settlement of emigrants who move to a new place, but remain culturally tied to their original place.

bermuda

English

Proper noun

(wikipedia Bermuda) (en proper noun)
  • An island group in the the North Atlantic Ocean, 580 nautical miles (1074 kilometers) east-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, held as an Overseas Territory by Britain
  • A pale, slightly blue shade of green
  • Derived terms

    * Bermuda cedar * Bermuda green * Bermuda onion * Bermuda rig * Bermuda shorts

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    Anagrams

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    colony

    English

    Noun

    (colonies)
  • A settlement of emigrants who move to a new place, but remain culturally tied to their original place of origin
  • Region or governmental unit created by another country and generally ruled by another country.
  • * Bermuda is a crown colony of Great Britain .
  • A group of people with the same interests or ethnic origin concentrated in a particular geographic area
  • * The in Iowa were settled by people from Germany
  • A group of organisms of same or different species living together in close association.
  • * ant colony
  • * The Portuguese Man O' War (Physalia physalis), also known as the bluebubble, bluebottle or the man-of-war, is commonly thought of as a jellyfish but is actually a siphonophore — a colony of specialized polyps and medusoids. Wikipedia article on (w, Portuguese Man o' War)
  • A collective noun for rabbits.
  • Derived terms

    * colonial (adj., n.) * colonialism (n.) * colonise, colonize * colonist (n.) * colonyhood (n.) * Cologne (city, n.) * penal colony * space colony