colony

Words with a similar base: colony

'colony'

[colony.n.01] as in: 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

Examples:
the American colony in Paris

'colony'

[colony.n.02] as in: a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together

'colony'

[colony.n.03] as in: one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States

'colony'

[colony.n.04] as in: a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated

Examples:
a nudist colony
an artists' colony

'colony'

[colony.n.05] as in: a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country

'colony'

[colony.n.06] as in: (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell

Origins

					colony (English)
└── colonia (Latin)
    └── colonus (Latin)
        └── colo (Latin)
            └── colum (Latin)

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