colony vs Plymouth Colony

colony and Plymouth Colony both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
colony	Yes	No	No	No
Plymouth Colony	Yes	No	No	No

colony (noun)	Plymouth Colony (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	colony formed by the Pilgrims when they arrived at Plymouth Rock in 1620; it was absorbed into the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1691
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