colonial vs colony

colonial and colony both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
colonial	Yes	Yes	No	No
colony	Yes	No	No	No

colonial (noun)	colony (noun)
a resident of a 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
	a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together
	(microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
	a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
	a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated

colonial (adjective)	colony (adjective)
of or relating to or characteristic of or inhabiting a colony
of animals who live in colonies, such as ants
composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony