colony

What does colony mean?

• noun

  a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country

• noun

  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

• noun

  a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together

• noun

  a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated

• noun

  (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell

• noun

  one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States

Anagrams of colony