Noun

1. 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
2. A group of organisms of the same type living or growing together
3. One of the 13 british colonies that formed the original states of the united states
4. A place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated
5. A geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
6. (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell