1. colony

noun. ['ˈkɑːləni'] a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government.

Rhymes with Penal Colony

Sentences with penal-colony

1. Noun Phrase
Australia was populated as a penal colony, New Zealand as a religious colony.

2. colony

noun. ['ˈkɑːləni'] a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together.

3. Colony

noun. one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States.

4. colony

noun. ['ˈkɑːləni'] a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated.

5. colony

noun. ['ˈkɑːləni'] (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell.

6. colony

noun. ['ˈkɑːləni'] a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country.

7. penal

adjective. ['ˈpiːnəl'] subject to punishment by law.

8. penal

adjective. ['ˈpiːnəl'] serving as or designed to impose punishment.