Colony

Definition of the noun colony


1. (7) colony, settlement : 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
2. (2) colony : a group of animals of the same type living together
3. Colony : one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
4. colony, dependency : a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
5. colony : (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell