colony

(n) 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
settlement,
(n) a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together
(n) one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
(n) a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated
- a nudist colony
- an artists' colony
(n) a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country dependency,
(n) (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell

settlement dependency

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