Definition of colony

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  • colony is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 11
  • colony is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 11
  • colony is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 13

Definition of colony

  • a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. dependency
  • 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 (noun)

    Examples

    1. the American colony in Paris

    Synonyms

    1. settlement
  • a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together (noun)
  • a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated (noun)

    Examples

    1. a nudist colony
    2. an artists' colony
  • (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell (noun)
  • one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States (noun)

See definition of colony in Merriam Webster