Colonia Definition

kōlə-nēə
colonias
noun
A shantytown inhabited mainly by speakers of Spanish and located in the United States near the border with Mexico.
American Heritage
In Mexico, a neighborhood, district, or suburb of a city.
Webster's New World
In the SW U.S., a rural settlement or part of a city whose residents are mainly Mexican and Mexican American.
Webster's New World
pronoun

A taxonomic genus within the family Tyrannidae — the long-tailed tyrant.

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Origin of Colonia

  • American Spanish neighborhood from Spanish colony from Latin colōnia colony

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Colonia Sentence Examples

  • The Portuguese were even worse offenders, for in 1680 they made a settlement on the north of the river Plate, right opposite to Buenos Aires, named Colonia, which with one or two short intervals, remained.

  • The triumviri settled some of their veterans here, whence it appears as Colonia Julia Felix Classica Suessa.

  • The city continued to flourish under the Romans, who made it a colony, with the name Colonia Victrix Julia Nova Carthago.

  • In the colonia parziaria the peasant executes all the agricultural work, in return for which he is housed rent-free, and receives onesixth of the corn, one-third of the maize and has a small money wage.

  • Through these two men a military revolution was speedily accomplished, and early in 69 Vitellius was proclaimed emperor at Colonia Agrippinensis (Cologne), or, more accurately, emperor of the armies of Upper Germany and Lower Germany.

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CCOCOL

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AIANIA

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