colony

noun

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