Meaning of colony
Definition of 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; "the American colony in Paris"
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
nudist
colony"; "an artists' colony"
a
geographical
area
politically
controlled
by a
distant
country
(microbiology) a
group
of organisms
grown
from a
single
parent
cell
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