1. (noun) 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

• settlement

2. (noun) a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country

• dependency

1. (noun) 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

• body

2. (noun) a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together

• biological group

3. (noun) one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States

• geographic area
• geographic region
• geographical area
• geographical region

4. (noun) a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated

• place
• property

5. (noun) a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country

• geographic area
• geographic region
• geographical area
• geographical region

6. (noun) (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell

• animal group

1. (noun) 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

• colonial

1. (noun) 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

• frontier settlement
• outpost
• plantation
• proprietary colony

2. (noun) a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country

• crown colony

1. (noun) (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell

• microbiology

1. (noun) 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

• colonial
• colonise
• colonise
• colonize
• colonize
• colonise
• colonise
• colonize
• colonize
• colonist
• settler
• locate
• settle
• settle
• settle

2. (noun) a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together

• colonial

3. (noun) one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States

• colonist
• settler

4. (noun) a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country

• colonial
• colonist
• settler
• dependent
• subject