| 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 | location of a colony of the United Kingdom on a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain; strategically important because it can control the entrance of ships into the Mediterranean; one of the Pillars of Hercules |
| 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 | |