(historical) A British colony in present-day South Africa and Namibia, named for the Cape of Good Hope.

(microbiology) laboratory equipment used to count colonies of bacteria, or other microorganisms, growing on agar, usually in a Petri dish.

(historical) The Orange Free State when annexed by Britain in 1900. Abbreviation ORC.

A mysterious and widespread phenomenon of the sudden disappearance of colonies of bees.

Pertaining to a modern "retro" interpretation of the US colonial era.

(historical) The Thirteen Colonies that became the United States of America.

plural of penal colony

plural of semi-colony

plural of leper colony

(linguistics, now deprecated) The retention of certain lexical items in a colonial variety of a language which have fallen into disuse in the original language.