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.
check bellow for the other definitions of Badger and Colony
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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).
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Badger as a noun:
A native or resident of the American state, Wisconsin.
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Badger as a noun (obsolete):
A brush made of badger hair.
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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.
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Badger as a verb:
To pester, to annoy persistently.
Examples:
"He kept badgering her about her bad habits."
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Badger as a verb (British, informal):
To pass gas; to fart.
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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.
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Colony as a noun:
A governmental unit created on land of another country owned by colonists from a country.
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Colony as a noun:
A settlement of emigrants who move to a new place, but remain culturally tied to their place of origin
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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."
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Colony as a noun (India):
An apartment complex.
Examples:
"Our colony is quite small, but each apartment is large."
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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."
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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"
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Colony as a noun:
A collective noun for rabbits.