Community vs Colony - What's the difference?
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A group sharing a common understanding and often the same language, manners, tradition and law. See civilization.
* Hallam
* Wordsworth
A commune, or residential or religious collective.
The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common.
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, title= (ecology) A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.
(internet) A group of people interacting by electronic means for social, professional, educational or other purposes; a virtual community.
(obsolete) Common possession or enjoyment; participation.
* (John Locke)
* (Washington Irving)
(obsolete) common character; likeness.
* H. Spencer
(obsolete) commonness; frequency
* Shakespeare
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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 community and colony
is that community is a group sharing a common understanding and often the same language, manners, tradition and law. See civilization while colony is a settlement of emigrants who move to a new place, but remain culturally tied to their original place of origin.community
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(wikipedia community) (communities)- Burdens upon the poorer classes of the community .
- Creatures that in communities exist.
- A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime (Oscar Wilde)
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- The original community of all things.
- An unreserved community of thought and feeling.
- The essential community of nature between organic growth and inorganic growth.
- Eyes sick and blunted with community .