- a country or territory claimed and forcibly taken control of by a foreign power which sends its own people to settle there: Many African nations are former European colonies.
- a group of people who leave their native country to form a settlement in a territory that their own government has claimed and forcibly taken control of: The Spanish colony in Mexico was numerous, powerful, and rich.
- any people or territory separated from but subject to a ruling power.
- the British territories that formed the original 13 states of the United States: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
- a number of people coming from the same country or speaking the same language, residing in a foreign country or city or in a particular section of it; enclave: There is a sizable Polish colony in Israel.
- any group of individuals having similar interests, occupations, etc., usually living in a particular locality; community: After college she joined a colony of artists in Florence.
- the district, quarter, or dwellings inhabited by such a group: The Greek island is now an artists' colony.
- a collection or mass of bacteria growing together as the descendants of a single cell.
- a group of organisms of the same kind living or growing in close association.
- a city in NE Texas.
- a body of people who settle in a country distant from their homeland but maintain ties with it
- the community formed by such settlers
- a subject territory occupied by a settlement from the ruling state
- a community of people who form a national, racial, or cultural minority
- the area itself
- zoology
- a group of the same type of animal or plant living or growing together, esp in large numbers
- an interconnected group of polyps of a colonial organism
- a group of bacteria, fungi, etc, derived from one or a few spores, esp when grown on a culture medium
