All colony synonyms

noun colony

• community — The community is all the people who live in a particular area or place.
• province — an administrative division or unit of a country.
• territory — any tract of land; region or district.
• outpost — a station established at a distance from the main body of an army to protect it from surprise attack: We keep only a small garrison of men at our desert outposts.
• protectorate — the relation of a strong state toward a weaker state or territory that it protects and partly controls.
• possession — the act or fact of possessing.
• satellite — Astronomy. a natural body that revolves around a planet; a moon.
• swarm — a body of honeybees that emigrate from a hive and fly off together, accompanied by a queen, to start a new colony.
• clearing — A clearing is a small area in a forest where there are no trees or bushes.
• dependency — A dependency is a country which is controlled by another country.
• dominion — the power or right of governing and controlling; sovereign authority.
• mandate — a command or authorization to act in a particular way on a public issue given by the electorate to its representative: The president had a clear mandate to end the war.
• offshoot — a branch or lateral shoot from a main stem, as of a plant.
• settlement — the act or state of settling or the state of being settled.
• antecedents — ancestry
• gathering — a drawing together; contraction.
• group — any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation: a group of protesters; a remarkable group of paintings.
• collection — A collection of things is a group of similar things that you have deliberately acquired, usually over a period of time.
• cluster — A cluster of people or things is a small group of them close together.
• association — An association is an official group of people who have the same job, aim, or interest.
• society — an organized group of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes.