Colony and People

Colony

Colony noun - A group of organisms of the same type living or growing together.

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People and colony are semantically related. In some cases you can use "People" instead a noun "Colony".

People noun - Human beings in general.

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Colony and people are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Colony" instead a noun "People".

Nearby Words: peopled, peopling

old	old colony	old people
normal	normal colony	normal people
future	future colony	future people
free	free colony	free people
Other adjectives: little, tiny, new, last, different.

Also, the original colony has its own Lost Colony, although that was founded in a more low-tech manner (putting lots of people on ocean-going vessels).

Source: Lost Colony
In one episode there's a group of colonists who had too few people to successfully build a colony, so instead of sex the went the cloning route.

Source: Sterility Plague
Hub City: There's a colony of players (technically NPCs, people from the real world though not representing real people) in the center of the Overworld dome, where most stay for safety.

Source: Roleplay / If Forumites Were Stuck In An RPG

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