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
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<noun.group> freq. cnt.: 14 freq. cnt.: 7 freq. cnt.: 7
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sample sentences
"the American colony in Paris"
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