colony, n.
(colonies)
freq. cnt. 9
(colonies)
freq. cnt. 9
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
<noun.group> freq. cnt.: 14 freq. cnt.: 7 freq. cnt.: 7
colony settlement
sample sentences
"the American colony in Paris"
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a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together
<noun.group> freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2
colony
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(microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
<noun.group>
colony
a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
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colony dependency
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a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated
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colony