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Nouns
(n)
colony
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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
“the American colony in Paris”
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(n)
colony
a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together
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(n)
colony
a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated
“a nudist colony”
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“an artists' colony”
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(n)
colony
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dependency
a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
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(n)
colony
(microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
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