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noun. A group of emigrants or their descendants who settle in a distant territory but remain subject to or closely associated with the parent country.

noun. A territory thus settled.

noun. A region politically controlled by a distant country; a dependency.

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noun. A group of people with the same interests or ethnic origin concentrated in a particular area.

noun. The area occupied by such a group.

noun. The British colonies that became the original 13 states of the United States.

noun. A group of people who have been institutionalized in a relatively remote area.

noun. A group of the same kind of animals, plants, or one-celled organisms living or growing together.

noun. A visible growth of microorganisms, usually in a solid or semisolid nutrient medium.

noun. A company or body of people who migrate from their native country or home to a new province, country, or district, to cultivate and inhabit it, but remain subject to or intimately connected with the parent state; also, the descendants of such settlers so long as the connection with the mother country is retained.

noun. The country or district planted or colonized.

noun. A number of persons of a particular nation, taken collectively, residing temporarily or indefinitely in a foreign city or country: as, the American colony in Paris.

noun. A number of animals or plants living or growing colonially.

To colonize.

noun. A circumscribed aggregation of bacteria of the same species in artificial culture.

noun. In sociology, a group of individuals of like natures or having a common interest, living by themselves as a self-sufficient social organization.

noun. A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent state.

noun. The district or country colonized; a settlement.

noun. a territory subject to the ruling governmental authority of another country and not a part of the ruling country.

noun. A company of persons from the same country sojourning in a foreign city or land.

noun. A number of animals or plants living or growing together, beyond their usual range.

noun. A cell family or group of common origin, mostly of unicellular organisms, esp. among the lower algæ. They may adhere in chains or groups, or be held together by a gelatinous envelope.

noun. A cluster or aggregation of zooids of any compound animal, as in the corals, hydroids, certain tunicates, etc.

noun. A community of social insects, as ants, bees, etc.

noun. a group of microorganisms originating as the descendents of one individual cell, growing on a gelled growth medium, as of gelatin or agar; especially, such a group that has grown to a sufficient number to be visible to the naked eye.

noun. A settlement of emigrants who move to a new place, but remain culturally tied to their original place

noun. Region or governmental unit created by another country and generally ruled by another country.

noun. A group of people with the same interests or ethnic origin concentrated in a particular geographic area

noun. A group of organisms of same or different species living together in close association.

noun. A collective noun for rabbits.

noun. a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together

noun. a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country

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

noun. a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated

noun. one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States

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

"The term colony comes from the Latin word colonus, meaning farmer."

charter colony  crown colony  doctrine of colonies  old colony  

Crown colony  cult  culture  

Cologne  colonial  colonialism  colonise  colonist  

animal group  biological group  place  property  

army  camp  capital  church  city  

adverse possession  ally  alodium  archduchy  archdukedom