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colony

英/kˈɒləni/
美/ˈkɑɫəni/
01n.

殖民地, 移民队

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 group of organisms of the same type living or growing together; one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States; a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated