Colony

/kˈɒləni/

/ˈkɑɫəni/

Colony

a group of people from the same place or with the same work or interests living in a particular city or country or who are connected to each other

synonyms : settlement

(biology) a community of plants or animals that live close to each other in the same place

any territory under the full or partial control of another more powerful nation, often occupied by settlers from that nation

synonyms : dependency

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

one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States

a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated

Examples

1. Bees are hardworking insects that tirelessly gather resources for their colony.

2. So these are independently founded colonies.

3. So colonies were popular.

4. Colonies slowly but surely crept into the most mundane forms of everyday life.