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English to English noun
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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 |  | Example: the American colony in Paris
source: wordnet30
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a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together | | source: wordnet30
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one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States | | source: wordnet30
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a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated | | Example: a nudist colony
an artists' colony
source: wordnet30
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a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country | | source: wordnet30
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(microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell | | source: wordnet30
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A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent state; as, the British colonies in America. | | source: webster1913
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A cell family or group of common origin, mostly of unicellular organisms, esp. among the lower algæ. They may adhere in chains or groups, or be held together by a gelatinous envelope. | | source: webster1913
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