colony

/kˈɑləni/ · 3 syllables

Meaning

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”
2. a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together
3. one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
4. a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated
   “a nudist colony”
5. a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
6. (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell

Synonyms for colony

• settlement
• dependency