Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun colony

6 senses of colony

Sense 1
colony, 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")
       => body -- (a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity; "the whole body filed out of the auditorium"; "the student body"; "administrative body")

Sense 2
colony -- (a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together)
       => biological group -- (a group of plants or animals)

Sense 3
Colony -- (one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States)
       => geographical area, geographic area, geographical region, geographic region -- (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Sense 4
colony -- (a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated; "a nudist colony"; "an artists' colony")
       => place, property -- (any area set aside for a particular purpose; "who owns this place?"; "the president was concerned about the property across from the White House")

Sense 5
colony, dependency -- (a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country)
       => geographical area, geographic area, geographical region, geographic region -- (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Sense 6
colony -- ((microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell)
       => animal group -- (a group of animals)