Scrabble?! COLONY

Definitions of COLONY in various dictionaries:

noun - a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland

noun - a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together

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

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

noun - a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country

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

A group of emigrants or their descendants who settle in a distant territory but remain subject to or closely associated with the parent country.

A territory thus settled.

Abbr.

A group of people with the same interests or ethnic origin concentrated in a particular area: the American colony in Paris.

The area occupied by such a group.

A group of people who have been institutionalized in a relatively remote area: an island penal colony.

A group of the same kind of animals, plants, or onecelled organisms living or growing together.

A visible growth of microorganisms, usually in a solid or semisolid nutrient medium.

noun - a group of emigrants living in a new land