colony

Noun

• (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell

• a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country

• a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated
  • a nudist colony
    
  • an artists' colony
    

• one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States

• a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  dependency , Colony , settlement