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colonies
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a group of people from the same place or with the same work or interests living in a particular city or country or who are connected to each other
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(biology) a community of plants or animals that live close to each other in the same place
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any territory under the full or partial control of another more powerful nation, often occupied by settlers from that nation
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(microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
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one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
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a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated