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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
"the American colony in Paris"

2. (noun) colony
a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together

3. (noun) Colony
one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States

4. (noun) colony
a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated
"a nudist colony"; "an artists' colony"

5. (noun) colony, dependency
a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country

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

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Webster 1913 Dictionary

1. (noun) colony
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; as, the British colonies in America

2. (noun) colony
the district or country colonized; a settlement

3. (noun) colony
a company of persons from the same country sojourning in a foreign city or land; as, the American colony in Paris

4. (noun) colony
a number of animals or plants living or growing together, beyond their usual range

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