Colonel vs Colony - What's the difference?
colonel | colony |
A commissioned officer in the army, air force, or marine corps. In U.S. military, it ranks above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general.
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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.
As nouns the difference between colonel and colony
is that colonel is a commissioned officer in the army, air force, or marine corps. In U.S. military, it ranks above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general while colony is a settlement of emigrants who move to a new place, but remain culturally tied to their original place of origin.colonel
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* (l) (obsolete) * (abbreviation) * (abbreviation)Noun
(en noun)- The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it. […] But there was not a more lascivious reprobate and gourmand in all London than this same Greystone.