Textual thesaurus for "Colony"

(noun) colony

a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together

(noun) colony

(microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell

(noun) settlement, colony

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

(noun) dependency, colony

a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country

(noun) colony

a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated

a nudist colony; an artists' colony