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PROPRIETARY COLONY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does proprietary colony mean?
• PROPRIETARY COLONY (noun)
The noun PROPRIETARY COLONY has 1 sense:
1. a colony given to a proprietor to govern (in 17th century)
Familiarity information: PROPRIETARY COLONY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A colony given to a proprietor to govern (in 17th century)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("proprietary colony" is a kind of...):
colony; settlement (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)
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