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    colony

    colony - Dictionary definition and meaning for word colony

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

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text: The Jamestown colony of Virginia.
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