Colony

What does COLONY mean?

1. 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”

2. noun

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

3. noun

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

4. noun

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

   “a nudist colony”

Definitions from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University.