colony

Much of the eastern United States was formerly a British colony; other areas were French, Spanish, Dutch, or Swedish colonies.

The question of ecclesiastical jurisdiction had to be answered before the colony sailed for East Florida.

a colony of British expats in Spain

a nudist colony; the statue was put up right in the middle of the artist colony

ant colony; coral colony

colonies of stem cells

Our colony is quite small, but each apartment is large.

That weekend in 2013, fraternity members from Baruch, a commuter school in Manhattan whose Pi Delta Psi colony was only about three years old, gathered in a large rental house in Tunkhannock Township, Pa. Early on a frigid morning, Mr. Deng followed the other pledges in putting on a blindfold and backpack.