DICTOMETER

COLONIES

(colony, colonia, koloni)

1. Synonyms:
   • Colony
   • Settlement
   Definitions:
   • 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
   Examples:
   • The American colony in Paris
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Colony
   Definitions:
   • a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Colony
   Definitions:
   • one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Colony
   Definitions:
   • a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated
   Examples:
   • A nudist colony
   • An artists' colony
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Colony
   • Dependency
   Definitions:
   • a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Colony
   Definitions:
   • (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell