Unscramble colony

Definition of colony

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

Related words

outpost.

Words nearby

colon, polony.