colony
noun
[ ˈkɒləni ]
• a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country.
• "Japanese forces overran the French colony of Indo-China"
Similar:
territory,
possession,
holding,
dependency,
province,
dominion,
protectorate,
satellite (state),
settlement,
outpost,
tributary,
fief,
• a group of people of one nationality or race living in a foreign place.
• "the British colony in New York"
• a community of animals or plants of one kind living close together or forming a physically connected structure.
• "a colony of seals"
Origin:
late Middle English (denoting a settlement formed mainly of retired soldiers, acting as a garrison in newly conquered territory in the Roman Empire): from Latin colonia ‘settlement, farm’, from colonus ‘settler, farmer’, from colere ‘cultivate’.
