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Definition of COLONIES
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noun : COLONIES

Source:WordNet 3.1

  • 1. (

    ) 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. (

    ) a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together ;

  • 3. (

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

  • 4. (

    ) a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated; "a nudist colony"; "an artists' colony" ;

  • 6. (

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


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