名词

1. 殖民地
A colony is a country which is controlled by a more powerful country.

2. (某一类人的)聚居地，聚居区
You can refer to a place where a particular group of people lives as a particular kind of colony .

3. (统称)英属殖民地
The colonies means all the countries that used to be British colonies.

4. (美国独立前的)北美十三州
The colonies means the 13 British colonies in North America which formed the original United States.

5. (鸟、昆虫或动物的)群体，集群，群落
A colony of birds, insects, or animals is a group of them that live together.

1. a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together

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

3. 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

e.g. the American colony in Paris

Synonym: settlement

4. a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country

Synonym: dependency

5. a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated

e.g. a nudist colony
an artists' colony