The difference between Badger and Colony

When used as nouns, badger means any mammal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family mustelidae: melinae (eurasian badgers), mellivorinae (ratel or honey badger), and (american badger), whereas colony means a governmental unit created on land of another country owned by colonists from a country.


Badger is also verb with the meaning: to pester, to annoy persistently.

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  1. Badger as a noun:

    Any mammal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family Mustelidae: Melinae (Eurasian badgers), Mellivorinae (ratel or honey badger), and (American badger).

  2. Badger as a noun:

    A native or resident of the American state, Wisconsin.

  3. Badger as a noun (obsolete):

    A brush made of badger hair.

  4. Badger as a noun (in the plural, obsolete, vulgar, cant):

    A crew of desperate villains who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered.

  1. Badger as a verb:

    To pester, to annoy persistently.

    Examples:

    "He kept badgering her about her bad habits."

  2. Badger as a verb (British, informal):

    To pass gas; to fart.

  1. Badger as a noun (obsolete):

    An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.

  1. Colony as a noun:

    A governmental unit created on land of another country owned by colonists from a country.

  2. Colony as a noun:

    A settlement of emigrants who move to a new place, but remain culturally tied to their place of origin

  3. Colony as a noun:

    Region or governmental unit created by another country and generally ruled by another country.

    Examples:

    "Bermuda is a crown colony of Great Britain."

  4. Colony as a noun (India):

    An apartment complex.

    Examples:

    "Our colony is quite small, but each apartment is large."

  5. Colony as a noun:

    A group of people with the same interests or ethnic origin concentrated in a particular geographic area

    Examples:

    "The Amana Colonies in Iowa were settled by people from Germany."

  6. Colony as a noun:

    A group of organisms of same or different species living together in close association.

    Examples:

    "ant colony'"

    "a colony of specialized polyps and medusoids"

  7. Colony as a noun:

    A collective noun for rabbits.

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