1. (noun) colony, settlement
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
Synonyms: village, colonization, dependency, settlement, small town, resolution, liquidation, colonisation, closure, colony
2. (noun) colony
a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together
Synonyms: dependency, settlement
3. (noun) Colony
one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
Synonyms: dependency, settlement
4. (noun) colony
a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated
Synonyms: dependency, settlement
5. (noun) colony, dependency
a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
Synonyms: dependence, dependance, habituation, colony, dependency, settlement, addiction
6. (noun) colony
(microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
Synonyms: dependency, settlement
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