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  1. noun
    a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country

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  2. 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"

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  3. noun
    a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together
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  4. noun
    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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    (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
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  6. noun
    one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
Definition that contains colony
  • plymouth colony colony formed by the Pilgrims when they arrived at Plymouth Rock in 1620; it was absorbed into the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1691
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