colony

n. group of people who have settled in a new country and who are still subject to the mother country; country or location subject to the mother country; commune, group of people which are joined by a shared interest and often live together; group of animals or plants which live together; group of insects which live together; group of ants which lives in a large community

This article is about a type of political territory. For other uses see Colony (disambiguation). In politics and in history, a colony is a territory under the immediate political control of a  state. For colonies in antiquity, city-states would often found their own colonies. Some colonies were historically countries, while others were territories without definite statehood from their inception. The metropolitan state is the state that owns the colony. In Ancient Greece, the city that owned a colony was called the metropolis within its political organization. Mother country is a reference to the metropolitan state from the point of view of citizens who live in its colony. Today, the terms overseas territory or dependent territory are preferred. There is a United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories.
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Noun
1. one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
(hypernym) geographical area, geographic area, geographical region, geographic region
(hyponym) Connecticut
(part-holonym) United States, United States of America, America, US, U.S., USA, U.S.A.

Noun
1. 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
(synonym) settlement
(hypernym) body
(hyponym) frontier settlement, outpost
(member-meronym) colonial
(derivation) colonize, colonise
2. a group of animals of the same type living together
(hypernym) animal group
3. a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
(synonym) dependency
(hypernym) geographical area, geographic area, geographical region, geographic region
(hyponym) Crown Colony
4. (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
(hypernym) animal group
(classification) microbiology

(n.)
The district or country colonized; a settlement.
  

(n.)
A number of animals or plants living or growing together, beyond their usual range.
  

(n.)
A company of persons from the same country sojourning in a foreign city or land; as, the American colony in Paris.
  

(n.)
A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent state; as, the British colonies in America.
  

a designation of Philippi, in (Acts 16:12) After the battle of Actium, Augustus assigned to his veterans those parts of Italy which had espoused the cause of Antony, and transported many of the expelled inhabitants to Philippi, Dyrrhachium and other cities. In this way Philippi was made a Roman colony with the "Jus Italicum." At first the colonists were all Roman citizens, and entitled to vote at Rome.