Synonyms of colony

1. colony, settlement, body: usage: 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"
2. colony, biological group: usage: a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together
3. Colony, geographical area, geographic area, geographical region, geographic region: usage: one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
4. colony, place, property: usage: a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated; "a nudist colony"; "an artists' colony"
5. colony, dependency, geographical area, geographic area, geographical region, geographic region: usage: a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
6. colony, animal group: usage: (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell