Nouns

(n)colony, settlementa 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”
(n)colonya group of organisms of the same type living or growing together
(n)colonya place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated“a nudist colony”, “an artists' colony”
(n)colony, dependencya geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
(n)colony(microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
(n)colony, British colony in the Americasone of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States