colony vs colonist

colony and colonist both are nouns.

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

colony (noun)	colonist (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 person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country
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