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colonia

colonia noun: a slum or shantytown near the US-Mexican border, generally without modern infrastructure.

Noun

colonia (plural colonias)

  1. a slum or shantytown near the US-Mexican border, generally without modern infrastructure

Proper noun capitalized: Colonia

Colonia

  1. An urban area of Yap, Federated States of Micronesia.
  2. A neighbourhood, The Colonia or La Colonia, in Oxnard, Ventura County, California, United States.
  3. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Woodbridge Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.
  4. A department of Uruguay.
  5. (abbreviation, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Colonia del Sacramento: a city, the capital of Colonia department, in south-western Uruguay.

Forms of colonia

pluralcolonias

Origin of colonia

Borrowed from Mexican Spanish colonia.

Compare with Spanish colonia. Doublet of Cologne, colony, and Köln.

Phrases with colonia

Questions about colonia

What does colonia mean?
Colonia means a slum or shantytown near the US-Mexican border, generally without modern infrastructure.
What part of speech is colonia?
Colonia can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of colonia?
The plural of colonia is colonias.

Words near colonia in the dictionary

  1. Colonești
  2. colongitude
  3. colongitudes
  4. Colongra
  5. coloni
  6. colonia
  7. Colonia del Sacramento
  8. Colonia LeBaron
  9. colonial
  10. colonial bent
  11. colonial blue

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colonia (page history and authors); Colonia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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