USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -A colony is a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.

Detailed explanation-2: -The American colonies were the British colonies that were established during the 17th and early 18th centuries in what is now a part of the eastern United States.

Detailed explanation-3: -A country that has many colonies is often called an empire. A colonist is a person from the metropolitan state who lives in a colony. Colonial means having to do with a colony. Colonial land is land that belongs to the colony. A colonist is sometimes called a colonial.

Detailed explanation-4: -Colonist and colonizer both have meanings closely tied to the word colonialism in its use referring to domination of a foreign people or area. Colonist, which comes directly from the noun colony, is the more common-and usually more neutral-term.

Detailed explanation-5: -col·o·ny ˈkäl-ə-nē plural colonies. : a group of people sent out by a state to a new territory. : the territory in which such colonists live. : a distant territory belonging to or under the control of a nation.