1.殖民地
2.殖民地定居者群体
3.（来自同一地方，职业或兴趣相同的）聚居人群
4.（雇主或机构设立的）职工城，职工居住区
5.（同地生长的植物或动物）群，群体，集落
词形变化
- 复数 colonies
- 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
- a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
- one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
- a group of animals of the same type living together
- (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell