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Noun colony has 5 senses

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
--₁ is a kind of body
--₁ has members: colonial
--₁ has particulars:
frontier settlement, outpost; Plantation; proprietary colony; Demerara; Gibraltar, Rock of Gibraltar, Calpe; Plymouth Colony; New Amsterdam

Derived forms: verb colonize₁, verb colonize₂, verb colonise₁, verb colonise₂
colony - a group of animals of the same type living together
--₂ is a kind of animal group
Colony - one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
--₃ is a kind of geographical area, geographic area, geographical region, geographic region
--₃ is a part of
United States, United States of America, America, US, U.S., USA, U.S.A.
--₃ has particulars:
Connecticut; Delaware; Georgia; Maryland; Massachusetts, Massachusetts Bay Colony; New Hampshire; New Jersey; New York; North Carolina; Pennsylvania; Rhode Island; South Carolina; Virginia
colony, dependency - a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
--₄ is a kind of geographical area, geographic area, geographical region, geographic region
--₄ has particulars: Crown Colony; New Netherland
colony - (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
--₅ is a kind of animal group