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noun : COLONIES
Source:WordNet 3.1
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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" ;
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2. (
) a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together ;
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3. (
) one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States ;
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4. (
) a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated; "a nudist colony"; "an artists' colony" ;
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5. (
) a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country ;
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6. (
) (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell ;
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