Home › Words › C › coloniacoloniacolonia means an urban area of Yap, Federated States of Micronesia.EtymologyCompare with Spanish colonia. Doublet of Cologne, colony, and Köln.nameAn urban area of Yap, Federated States of Micronesia.A neighbourhood, The Colonia or La Colonia, in Oxnard, Ventura County, California, United States.An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.A department of Uruguay.nouna slum or shantytown near the US-Mexican border, generally without modern infrastructureDefinitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.coloner 55% match — A colonist. vs colonia →coloniarch 54% match — A colonizer. vs colonia →barriada 52% match — A shanty town or slum in any of several Peruvian cities vs colonia →colonus 52% match — A sharecropping tenant farmer of the late Roman Empire and Early Middle Ages. vs colonia →borghetto 51% match — An Italian shanty town. vs colonia →colonate 51% match — A peasant, in Ancient Rome, who was legally tied to the land, but could not be bought or sold vs colonia →slum 50% match — A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty. vs colonia →calpolli 50% match — A subdivision of an altepetl; a "barrio". vs colonia →