Remote settlement used to house convicts from the general population.
Sinònims
Examples for "penal colony"
Examples for "penal colony"
1He said the men would serve their sentences in a penal colony.
2But the penal colony struggled to survive as food supplies quickly dwindled.
3Overview: You're building a fortress on a remote island, a penal colony.
4In 1852 the French Government established a penal colony on these islands.
5But the day has gone by for successful re-establishment of a penal colony.
1The 25th were sent to Spike Island, a convict settlement near Queenstown, Ireland.
2Create convict settlement for innocent people, now we'll be a leper colony, he texted.
3Both much depressed to-night; the atmosphere of this camp is like a convict settlement.
4Angola, however, has latterly been adopted as the principal convict settlement of the Portuguese.
5A bell began to toll in the convict settlement.
Translations for exile colony