[ˈkɒləni], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country
(e.g: Japanese forces overran the French colony of Indo-China)

- a group of people of one nationality or race living in a foreign place
(e.g: the British colony in New York)

- a community of animals or plants of one kind living close together or forming a physically connected structure
(e.g: a colony of seals)


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Origin:
late Middle English (denoting a settlement formed mainly of retired soldiers, acting as a garrison in newly conquered territory in the Roman Empire): from Latin colonia ‘settlement, farm’, from colonus ‘settler, farmer’, from colere ‘cultivate’