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 states system of government; the American colony in Paris

[ Syn: settlement ]

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

[ Syn: colony ]

a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated; a nudist colony; an artists' colony'

a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country

[ Syn: dependency ]

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