Colony - one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
colony - a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated
Example:- a nudist colony
colony - a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together
colony, dependency - a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
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
Example:- the American colony in Paris
colony - (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell