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A colony is a territory under the immediate political control of a geographically distant state. The word Colony comes from the Latin word colōnia. Colony may also refer to:
Society
- Art colony
- Colony (fraternity or sorority), probationary chapter of a national fraternity or sorority
- Colony houses, model housing developments in Edinburgh
- Colonies in antiquity, Greek and Roman practice of settling independent daughter states, over which the mother state had no direct control
- Indian colony, Native American settlement
- Leper colony
- Penal colony
- Proprietary colony
- Space colony (disambiguation), multiple meanings
- Summer colony
- Colony (Russian Empire), a type of settlement in the Russian Empire with an invited foreign population
Animals, insects, micro-organisms, & plants
- Colony (biology), group of individual organisms of the same species living closely together
- Ant colony
- Bird colony
- Cat colony
- Clonal colony
Places
In the United States:
- Colony, Alabama
- Colony, Kansas
- Colony, Missouri
- Colony, Oklahoma
- Colony, Lexington, a neighborhood in southwestern Lexington, Kentucky, United States
- The Colony, Texas
- Colony High School, Ontario, California
- Colony Hill, Washington, D.C.
- Colony Place, retail development in Plymouth, Massachusetts
- Colony Township, Adams County, Iowa
- Colony Township, Delaware County, Iowa
- Colony Township, Greeley County, Kansas
- First Colony, Texas
- Iowa Colony, Texas
- Tennessee Colony, Texas
- Yamato Colony (disambiguation), various
Media
Literature
- Colony (Rob Grant novel)
- Colony (short story), by Philip K. Dick
- Colony (Buffy novel), based on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series
Film & television
- Colony (The X-Files), episode from the TV series The X-Files
- The Colony (2005 TV series), 2005 reality TV series set in historical Australia
- The Colony (U.S. TV series), 2009 Discovery Channel reality TV series set in a post-apocalyptic US
- Colony (film), 2010 documentary about beekeepers and the effect of colony collapse disorder
- The Colony (1995 film), a 1995 television film
- The Colony (1996 film), a 1996 television film
- The Colony (2013 film), a 2013 Canadian film
Music
- "Colony", a song by Susumu Hirasawa on the 1995 album Sim City
- Colony (In Flames album)
- Colony (Bjørn Lynne album)
Video games
- Colony (video game), 1987 computer game by Mastertronic
- The Colony (video game), 1988 computer game by Mindscape
Companies
- Colony Brands, mail-order and electronic retail company
- Colony Capital, private, international investment firm based in Los Angeles, California, United States
Other
- The Colony (professional wrestling), professional wrestling stable in Chikara
- Colony Club, social club in New York City, New York, USA
- The Colony Room, private drinking club on Dean Street in Soho, London, England
- Colony (restaurant), restaurant in London, England
- The Colony (restaurant), restaurant in New York City, 1923-1971
- Old Colony Railroad, in Massachusetts, United States
- Jim Colony, sports news announcer
- Colony Framework, open source plugin framework specification
See also
- All pages beginning with "colony"
- All pages with titles containing "colony"
- Colony class (disambiguation)
- Colony House (disambiguation)
- Bay Colony (disambiguation)
- Lost Colony (disambiguation)
- Old Colony (disambiguation)
- Colonization
- Colon (disambiguation)
- Commune
- Colonia (disambiguation)