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colony
Definition:
(nou) 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 (nou) a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together (nou) one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States (nou) a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated (nou) a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country (nou) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
Phonetic Transcription:
ˈkɒləni
Examples:
A civilian colony on the planet Planthos survived the war and cataclysm.
The Yamasee War of 1715 1717 ravaged the backcountry of the colony.
The status of the colony after the end of the Brood War is not known.
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