Village vs Colony - What's the difference?
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A rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town.
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, title= (British) A rural habitation that has a church, but no market.
(Australia) A planned community such as a retirement community or shopping district.
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 village and colony
is that village is a rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town while colony is a settlement of emigrants who move to a new place, but remain culturally tied to their original place of origin.village
English
(wikipedia village)Noun
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