1. • noun - a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland
   • noun - a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together
   • noun - one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
   • noun - a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated
   • noun - a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
   • noun - (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
2. • A group of emigrants or their descendants who settle in a distant territory but remain subject to or closely associated with the parent country.
   • A territory thus settled.
   • Abbr.
   • A group of people with the same interests or ethnic origin concentrated in a particular area: the American colony in Paris.
   • The area occupied by such a group.
   • A group of people who have been institutionalized in a relatively remote area: an island penal colony.
   • A group of the same kind of animals, plants, or onecelled organisms living or growing together.
   • A visible growth of microorganisms, usually in a solid or semisolid nutrient medium.
3. • n - a group of emigrants living in a new land

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