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Meaning of colony

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  colony
      n 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" [syn:
           {colony}, {settlement}]
      2: a group of organisms of the same type living or growing
         together
      3: one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original
         states of the United States
      4: a place where a group of people with the same interest or
         occupation are concentrated; "a nudist colony"; "an artists'
         colony"
      5: a geographical area politically controlled by a distant
         country [syn: {colony}, {dependency}]
      6: (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single
         parent cell

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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