What does COLONY mean?

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“the American colony in Paris”
2. a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together
3. a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated“a nudist colony”
4. a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
5. (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell