| 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” |
| noun | a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together |
| noun | one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States |
| noun | a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated “a nudist colony” |
| noun | a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country |
| noun | (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell |
| colonial | adjective | of or relating to or characteristic of or inhabiting a colony |
| colonist | noun | a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country |
| colonize | verb | settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world |
| colonise | verb | settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world |
| settle | verb | establish or develop as a residence |
| dependent | adjective | being under the power or sovereignty of another or others |