Colony Meaning

There are 6 meaning(s) for word Colony

Meaning 1 : a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country

    Synonyms : dependency
Meaning 2 : 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

    Example : the American colony in Paris

    Synonyms : settlement
Meaning 3 : a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together

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

    Example : a nudist colony,an artists' colony

Meaning 5 : (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell

Meaning 6 : one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States