colony vs New Amsterdam

colony and New Amsterdam both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
colony	Yes	No	No	No
New Amsterdam	Yes	No	No	No

colony (noun)	New Amsterdam (noun)
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 settlement established by the Dutch near the mouth of Hudson River and the southern end of Manhattan Island; annexed by the English in 1664 and renamed New York
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