Protectorate vs. Colony
Protectoratenoun
Government by a protector; especially, the government of England, Scotland, and Ireland by Oliver Cromwell.
Protectoratenoun
The authority assumed by a superior power over an inferior or a dependent one, whereby the former protects the latter from invasion and shares in the management of its affairs but the protected state retains its nominal sovereignty.
Protectoratenoun
An autonomous territory that is protected diplomatically or militarily against third parties by a stronger state or entity.
Protectoratenoun
Government by a protector; - applied especially to the government of England by Oliver Cromwell.
Protectoratenoun
The authority assumed by a superior power over an inferior or a dependent one, whereby the former protects the latter from invasion and shares in the management of its affairs.
Protectoratenoun
a state or territory partly controlled by (but not a possession of) a stronger state but autonomous in internal affairs; protectorates are established by treaty
Protectorate
A protectorate is a state that is controlled and protected by another sovereign state. It is a dependent territory that has been granted local autonomy over most internal affairs while still recognizing the suzerainty of a more powerful sovereign state without being its direct possession.
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 ).
