- colony, settlement - 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
--1 is a kind of body
--1 has members: colonial
--1 has particulars:frontier settlement, outpost; Plantation; proprietary colony; Demerara; Gibraltar, Rock of Gibraltar, Calpe; Plymouth Colony; New Amsterdam Derived forms: verb colonize1, verb colonize2, verb colonise1, verb colonise2 - colony - a group of animals of the same type living together
--2 is a kind of animal group
- Colony - one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
--3 is a kind of geographical area, geographic area, geographical region, geographic region
--3 is a part of
--3 has particulars:United States, United States of America, America, US, U.S., USA, U.S.A. Connecticut; Delaware; Georgia; Maryland; Massachusetts, Massachusetts Bay Colony; New Hampshire; New Jersey; New York; North Carolina; Pennsylvania; Rhode Island; South Carolina; Virginia - colony, dependency - a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
--4 is a kind of geographical area, geographic area, geographical region, geographic region
--4 has particulars: Crown Colony; New Netherland- colony - (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
--5 is a kind of animal group
- Colony - one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States