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    PROPRIETARY COLONY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A colony given to a proprietor to govern (in 17th century)play

    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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