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   colony

   /ˈkɒləni/

   noun

   • 1. a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country: "Japanese forces overran the French colony of Indo-China" Similar territorypossessionholdingdependencyprovincedominionprotectoratesatellite (state)settlementoutposthistorical:tributaryfief
   • ▪ a group of people living in a colony, consisting of the original settlers and their descendants and successors: "the colony looked forward to fifty or more years of autonomy"
   • ▪ all the foreign countries or areas formerly under British political control: "many poachers were exiled to the colonies"
   • ▪ another term for Thirteen Colonies British
   • 2. a group of people of one nationality or race living in a foreign place: "the British colony in New York" Similar populationcommunity
   • ▪ a place where a group of people with the same occupation or interest live together: "a nudist colony" Similar communityassociationcommunesettlementquarterdistrictsectionghetto
   • ▪ a housing estate or residential community, especially one originally constructed by an employer for its workers: South Asian "a large housing colony has already been built"
   • 3. a community of animals or plants of one kind living close together or forming a physically connected structure: "a colony of seals"
   • ▪ a group of fungi or bacteria grown from a single spore or cell on a culture medium.

   Word Origin late Middle English (denoting a settlement formed mainly of retired soldiers, acting as a garrison in newly conquered territory in the Roman Empire): from Latin colonia ‘settlement, farm’, from colonus ‘settler, farmer’, from colere ‘cultivate’.

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