Words · Common
colony
/ˈkɑləni/ · 6 letters · 5 distinct letters
- noun
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
- noun
a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together
- noun
one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
- noun
a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated
a nudist colony
- noun
a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country