Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun proprietary_colony

1 sense of proprietary colony

Sense 1
proprietary colony -- (a colony given to a proprietor to govern (in 17th century))
       => 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; "the American colony in Paris")