Definition of "colony" []

• A group of emigrants or their descendants who settle in a distant territory but remain subject to or closely associated with the parent country. (noun)
• A territory thus settled. (noun)
• A region politically controlled by a distant country; a dependency. (noun)
• A group of people with the same interests or ethnic origin concentrated in a particular area: the American colony in Paris. (noun)
• The area occupied by such a group. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The term colony comes from the Latin word colonus, meaning farmer."
• "This colony is about twenty feet high and spans a length of 100 feet and is probably hundreds of years old."
• "It's what they call a colony, that's to say, a good number of people of all sorts, besides convicts, goes out there, and they've a governor set over them, who rules the land just like any king."