The verb of colony is colonise.
Other verbs are colonises, colonising and colonised.
Some example sentences are:
"We will colonise this land".
"Britain colonises a new territory".
"They began colonising the island".
"We have colonised Uranus".
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No, "colony" is a noun. Its adjective form is "colonial."
The adjective form is colonial.
There are participle adjectives from the verb to colonize, which are colonizing (making colonies) and colonized(refers to regions where a colony is established). The general adjective for the noun colony is colonial.
The noun colonialism is based on the adjective colonial. Colonial has other meanings but is based on the noun colony.
No, it is a noun. However, it can be used as a noun adjunct: bee sting, bee colony.
The singular form of colonies is colony.
No. It is neither vivid nor an adjective; it is the simple past tense form of a descriptive verb.To be an adjective, it has to modify a noun; to be vivid, it has to create a striking picture in the reader's imagination. 'Walked' does neither.An example of a vivid adjective would be 'rushing', as in rushing ants: it modifies the (plural) noun 'ants' and gives the reader a mental picture of an ant colony darting about at random.
Yeppp, but it's not "colonies" it is, "colonially". Colonies (colony) is a NOUN. Colonise is the verb and colonial is the adjective.
Some of the nouns used with the collective noun colony are:a colony of antsa colony of avocetsa colony of badgersa colony of batsa colony of beaversa colony of chinchillasa colony of gullsa colony of lepersa colony of licea colony of penguinsa colony of ratsa colony of sealsa colony of termitesa colony of voles
Yes, the noun 'colony' is a standard collective noun for:a colony of antsa colony of avocetsa colony of badgersa colony of batsa colony of beaversa colony of chinchillasa colony of gullsa colony of lepersa colony of penguinsa colony of ratsa colony of sealsa colony of termitesa colony of voles
It depends on the usage of the word. If it describes what type of settlement or activity is, then it is an adjective, i.e. The colonial city was required to pay typical colonial taxes. If it independently refers to a person who happens to live in a colony, then it is a noun, i.e. The colonial told me that the situation is deteriorating on the border.