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an area where individuals who have something in common live as a group

colony, settlement(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

"the American colony in Paris"

colony(noun)

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

Colony(noun)

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

colony(noun)

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

"a nudist colony"; "an artists' colony"

colony, dependency(noun)

a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country

colony(noun)

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

a settlement in a new country or region

the early history of New York City when it was a Dutch colony

a group of people with a common interest living in one place

New Hampshire's MacDowell colony was founded as a summer residence for writers and composers

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