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According to WordNet, the noun "colony" has 5 sense(s).

108514233 a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated; "a nudist colony"; "an artists' colony".

107995856 a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together.

108374049 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".

108499840 a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country.

107996010 (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell.

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