Colony vs Metropole - What's the difference?
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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.
A metropolis; the main city of a country or area.
The parent-state of a colony.
* 2007 , Bruce Ackerman, ‘Meritocracy v. Democracy’, London Review of Books 29:5, p. 9:
* 2007 , John Darwin, After Tamerlane , Penguin 2008, p. 63:
As nouns the difference between colony and metropole
is that colony is a settlement of emigrants who move to a new place, but remain culturally tied to their original place of origin while metropole is a metropolis; the main city of a country or area.colony
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(colonies)Derived terms
* colonial (adj., n.) * colonialism (n.) * colonise, colonize * colonist (n.) * colonyhood (n.) * Cologne (city, n.) * penal colony * space colonymetropole
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(en noun)- Though the metropole remained confident in its Westminster ways, its newly independent colonies imposed constitutional constraints on the powers of parliament.
- As Europe's population growth and commercial activity slowed down after 1620, its thirst for Spanish-American silver slackened: metropole and colony were drifting apart.