Colony meaning

noun

1. 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”

   Synonymssettlement

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

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

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

   “a nudist colony”

   “an artists' colony”

5. a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country

   Synonymsdependency

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