colony in WordNet English dictionary

1. 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"
   colony  settlement 
   
2. a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together
   colony 
   
3. (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
   colony 
   
4. a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
   colony  dependency 
   
5. a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated
   "a nudist colony"; "an artists' colony"
   colony