colony

Meanings

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

Synonyms

dependency, settlement