Colony and Zone

Colony

Colony noun - A group of organisms of the same type living or growing together.

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Zone and colony are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Zone" instead a noun "Colony".

Zone noun - A broad geographical area.

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Colony and zone are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Colony" instead a noun "Zone".

Nearby Words: zoned, zoning, zonal

full	full colony	full zone
original	original colony	original zone
free	free colony	free zone
single	single colony	single zone
Other adjectives: small, entire, massive, large, big, huge, main, secret, new, major, former, neutral, last, different, local, named, habitable, underwater, evacuated.

Zone of the Enders: Leo Stenbuck is intially extremely reluctant to fight even when his entire colony is being destroyed around him.

Source: Reluctant Warrior
While playing ball with the local kids, Wesley accidentally breaks a cheap gardening implement and discovers why the colony is so peaceful: every day a new area is randomly and secretly selected as a "punishment zone" and within it, all crime is punishable by death.

Source: Felony Misdemeanor
Mobile Suit Gundam does this with the Corregidor Shoal Zone, a collection of debris from decades of asteroid processing for space colony construction that have aggregated around a LeGrange point.

Source: Asteroid Thicket

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