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Colony

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Definitions for Colony

noun
a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland
Synonyms
settlement
Examples
  1. inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government
  2. the American colony in Paris
noun
a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together
noun
one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
noun
a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated
Examples
  1. a nudist colony
  2. an artists' colony
noun
a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
Synonyms
dependency
noun
(microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell

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