colony

關於colony的翻譯

殖民地;群體,群落

colony definition

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