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colony

English

  1. 🔊 a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together
  2. 🔊 (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
  3. 🔊 a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland
    “the American colony in Paris”
  4. 🔊 a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
  5. 🔊 a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated
    “a nudist colony”
  6. 🔊 one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States

Spanish

  1. 🔊 colonia colony

Similar words

settlement dependency adverse possession ally alodium archduchy archdukedom army ashram body body politic buffer state bunch burgage captive nation caste chieftaincy chieftainry city-state claim clan class commonweal commonwealth