Colony (Noun)
Meaning 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".
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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
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Meaning 2
A group of organisms of the same type living or growing together.
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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
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Meaning 3
A place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated; "a nudist colony"; "an artists' colony".
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Nouns denoting spatial position.
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Meaning 4
(microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell.
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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
Meaning 5
One of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States.
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Nouns denoting spatial position.
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Meaning 6
A geographical area politically controlled by a distant country.
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Nouns denoting spatial position.