Empire vs. Colony

Empirenoun

A political unit having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations and ruled by a single supreme authority.

Empirenoun

A political unit that controls at least one kingdom under its vassalage.

Empirenoun

A group of states or other territories that owe allegiance to a foreign power.

Empirenoun

A state ruled by an emperor.

Empirenoun

An expansive and wealthy corporation.

Empireadjective

alternative case form of Empire.

Empirenoun

Supreme power; sovereignty; sway; dominion.

Empirenoun

The dominion of an emperor; the territory or countries under the jurisdiction and dominion of an emperor (rarely of a king), usually of greater extent than a kingdom, always comprising a variety in the nationality of, or the forms of administration in, constituent and subordinate portions; as, the Austrian empire.

Empirenoun

Any dominion; supreme control; governing influence; rule; sway; as, the empire of mind or of reason.

Empirenoun

the domain ruled by an emperor or empress

Empirenoun

a group of countries under a single authority;

Empirenoun

a monarchy with an emperor as head of state

Empirenoun

a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization

Empirenoun

an eating apple that somewhat resembles a McIntosh; used as both an eating and a cooking apple

Empirenoun

an extensive group of states or countries ruled over by a single monarch, an oligarchy, or a sovereign state

Empirenoun

supreme political power over several countries when exercised by a single authority

Empirenoun

absolute control over a person or group.

Empirenoun

a large commercial organization owned or controlled by one person or group

Empirenoun

an extensive sphere of activity controlled by one person or group

Empireadjective

denoting a style of furniture, decoration, or dress fashionable chiefly during the First Empire in France. The decorative style was neoclassical but marked by an interest in Egyptian and other ancient motifs.

Empireadjective

denoting produce from the Commonwealth.

Empire

An empire is a sovereign state made up of several territories and peoples subject to a single ruling authority, often an emperor. A state can become an empire either by a narrow definition through having an emperor and being named as such, or by a broad definition as stated above as an aggregate territory under the rule of supreme authorities such as the Roman Empire.

Colonynoun

A governmental unit created on land of another country owned by colonists from a country.

Colonynoun

A settlement of emigrants who move to a new place, but remain culturally tied to their place of origin

Colonynoun

Region or governmental unit created by another country and generally ruled by another country.

Colonynoun

(India) An apartment complex.

Colonynoun

A group of people with the same interests or ethnic origin concentrated in a particular geographic area

Colonynoun

A group of organisms of same or different species living together in close association.

Colonynoun

A collective noun for rabbits.

Colonynoun

A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent state; as, the British colonies in America.

Colonynoun

The district or country colonized; a settlement.

Colonynoun

a territory subject to the ruling governmental authority of another country and not a part of the ruling country.

Colonynoun

A company of persons from the same country sojourning in a foreign city or land; as, the American colony in Paris.

Colonynoun

A number of animals or plants living or growing together, beyond their usual range.

Colonynoun

A cell family or group of common origin, mostly of unicellular organisms, esp. among the lower algæ. They may adhere in chains or groups, or be held together by a gelatinous envelope.

Colonynoun

A cluster or aggregation of zooids of any compound animal, as in the corals, hydroids, certain tunicates, etc.

Colonynoun

A community of social insects, as ants, bees, etc.

Colonynoun

a group of microorganisms originating as the descendents of one individual cell, growing on a gelled growth medium, as of gelatin or agar; especially, such a group that has grown to a sufficient number to be visible to the naked eye.

Colonynoun

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

Colonynoun

a group of animals of the same type living together

Colonynoun

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

Colonynoun

a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country

Colonynoun

(microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell

Colonynoun

a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country

Colonynoun

a group of people living in a colony, consisting of the original settlers and their descendants and successors

Colonynoun

all the foreign countries or areas formerly under British political control

Colonynoun

another term for Thirteen Colonies

Colonynoun

a group of people of one nationality or race living in a foreign place

Colonynoun

a place where a group of people with the same occupation or interest live together

Colonynoun

a housing estate or residential community, especially one originally constructed by an employer for its workers

Colonynoun

a community of animals or plants of one kind living close together or forming a physically connected structure

Colonynoun

a group of fungi or bacteria grown from a single spore or cell on a culture medium.

Colony

In political science, a colony is a territory subject to a form of foreign rule. Though dominated by the foreign colonizers, colonies remain separate from the administration of the original country of the colonizers, the metropolitan state (or ).