Settlement
Of body. May also be referred to as colony.
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; "the American colony in Paris".
This concept's ID is @1~44935
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- Gibraltar
Location of a colony of the United Kingdom on a limestone promontory at the southern tip...
- outpost
A settlement on the frontier of civilization.
- New Amsterdam
A settlement established by the Dutch near the mouth of Hudson River and the southern...
- Plantation
A newly established colony (especially in the colonization of North America); "the practice...
- proprietary colony
A colony given to a proprietor to govern (in 17th century).
- colonial
A resident of a colony.
- Demerara
A former Dutch colony in South America; now a part of Guyana.
- Plymouth Colony
Colony formed by the Pilgrims when they arrived at Plymouth Rock in 1620; it was...
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- settler
A person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country.