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Definitions of colony in various dictionaries:
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
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| Artist's place, perhaps |
| Ant group |
| Ant habitat |
| Any of the original 13 |
| Virginia, once |
| Massachusetts, e.g., before 1776 |
| Ants unit |
| Belize, once |
| Settlement |
| Artist's home, perhaps |
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| A drama given annually about the Dares & their fellow settlers is titled "The Lost" this |
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| a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country. |
| a group of people of one nationality or race living in a foreign place. |
| A community of animals or plants of one kind living close together or forming a physically connected structure. |
| A group of people of one nationality or race living in a foreign place. |
| A country or area under the full or partial political control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country. |
| one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States |
| a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country |
| (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell |
| a group of animals of the same type living together |
| 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 |
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In history, a colony is a territory under the immediate complete political control of a state, distinct from the home territory of the sovereign. For colonies in antiquity, city-states would often found their own colonies. Some colonies were historically countries, while others were territories without definite statehood from their inception. * The metropolitan state is the state that rules the colony. In Ancient Greece, the city that founded a colony was known as the metropolis. "Mother country" is a reference to the metropolitan state from the point of view of citizens who live in its colony. There is a United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories. * Unlike a puppet state or satellite state, a colony has no independent international representation, and its top-level administration is under direct control of the metropolitan state. * The term informal colony is used by some historians to refer to a country under the de facto control of another state, although this term is often con |