| colony definitions |
| # | Definition | Sets |
| 1 | a settlement ruled by another country | 41 sets |
| 2 | a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland | 33 sets |
| 3 | a land controlled by another nation | 30 sets |
| 4 | a territory or community that is under the control of another country | 21 sets |
| 5 | group of people who settle in a distant land but are still ruled by the government of their native land | 21 sets |
| 6 | a group of people in one place who are ruled by a parent country elsewhere | 19 sets |
| 7 | a group of many individual animals | 18 sets |
| 8 | a place that is ruled by another country | 15 sets |
| 9 | a group of people, animals, or plants living close together | 14 sets |
| 10 | a group of animals of the same type living together | 13 sets |
| 11 | kolonie | 13 sets |
| 12 | a territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than completely independent. | 10 sets |
| 13 | a territory or community that is under control of another country | 10 sets |
| 14 | a settlement of people living in a new territory, linked with the parent country by trade and direct government control | 10 sets |
| 15 | territory settled and ruled by people from another land | 10 sets |
| 16 | land controlled by another nation | 8 sets |
| 17 | a settlement that is ruled by another country | 8 sets |
| 18 | a group of people, animals, or plants living close together. | 7 sets |
| 19 | a territory ruled by another country | 7 sets |
| 20 | overseas territory or settlement tied to a parent country | 7 sets |
| 21 | a location that is settled by people who remain citizens of their own country | 7 sets |
| 22 | a settlement in a new territory that keeps close ties to its homeland | 6 sets |
| 23 | a settlement in a foreign land controlled by a home country | 6 sets |
| 24 | a group of people who settle in another land but who are still under the rule of their native land | 6 sets |
| 25 | a settlement far from the country that rules it | 6 sets |
| 26 | a group of people who settle in a new land and have legal ties to the country they came from. | 6 sets |
| 27 | settlement in a new territory that keeps close ties with its homeland | 6 sets |
| 28 | a place ruled by another country | 6 sets |
| 29 | a group of people in one place who are ruled by a parent country elsewhere. | 6 sets |
| 30 | a territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than completely independent | 6 sets |
| 31 | a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country | 5 sets |
| 32 | a country or an area ruled by another country | 5 sets |
| 33 | an area that is controlled by or belongs to a country and is usually far away from it | 5 sets |
| 34 | a place ruled by people in another country | 5 sets |
| 35 | an area of land ruled by another country | 5 sets |
| 36 | a settlement in one land ruled by the government of another land | 5 sets |
| 37 | visible growth on a culture plate | 5 sets |
| 38 | a land ruled by another country | 5 sets |
| 39 | a group of people who settle in a distant land but are still ruled by the government of their native land | 5 sets |
| 40 | settlement | 5 sets |