colony

noun

1. a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government

- the American colony in Paris

Similar word(s): settlement

Definition categories: group, body

2. a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together

Definition categories: group

3. one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States

Definition categories: location

4. a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated

- a nudist colony

- an artists' colony

Definition categories: location, place, property

5. a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country

Similar word(s): dependency

Definition categories: location

6. (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell

Definition categories: group