🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

colônia proprietária

Pronunciation / Transliteration: colônia proprietária

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Proprietary-colony/prəˈpraɪətəri ˈkɒləni/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #25000 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"A Pensilvânia foi estabelecida como uma colônia proprietária."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    A colony granted to some individual or individuals by the British crown with full rights of ownership and control.

    "Pennsylvania was established as a proprietary colony under William Penn."

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from 'proprietary' (pertaining to an owner or proprietor) and 'colony' (a settlement in a new country), historically referring to territories granted to individuals or small groups by the British Crown in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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