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