colony
colony - noun
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
a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together
one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated
a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
(microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
colony - thesaurus
dependency
settlement