What is the meaning of Colony?

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.
  • usage: "the American colony in Paris"
  • synonyms: settlement
• A group of organisms of the same type living or growing together.
• 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.
  • usage: "a nudist colony"; "an artists' colony"
• A geographical area politically controlled by a distant country.
  • synonyms: dependency
• Microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell. (.