Definitions For Colony

noun

• A group of organisms of the same type living or growing together
• (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
• 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
• A geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
• A place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated
• One of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
• An area that is controlled by or belongs to a country and is usually far away from it
• A group of people sent by a country to live in such a colony
• A group of plants or animals living or growing in one place