Read the dictionary definition of colony. All definitions for this word.
1. a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together
2. (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
3. 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
1. the American colony in Paris
4. a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
5. a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated
1. a nudist colony
2. an artists' colony
6. one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
