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Meaning of colony
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
colony
n 1: 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" [syn:
{colony}, {settlement}]
2: a group of organisms of the same type living or growing
together
3: one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original
states of the United States
4: a place where a group of people with the same interest or
occupation are concentrated; "a nudist colony"; "an artists'
colony"
5: a geographical area politically controlled by a distant
country [syn: {colony}, {dependency}]
6: (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single
parent cell
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