1. (noun)colony, settlement a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their homestate but are not literally under the home state's system of government "the American colony in Paris"
2. (noun)village, small town, settlement a community of people smaller than a town
4. (noun)colonization, colonisation, settlement the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies
"the British colonization of America"
5. (noun)settlement, resolution, closure something settled or resolved; the outcome of decisionmaking "they finally reached a settlement with the union"; "they never did achieve a final resolution of their differences"; "he needed to grieve before he could achieve a sense of closure"
6. (noun)settlement an area where a group of families live together
Definition of 'settlement'
