settlement

How to sign: 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

Similiar / Same: colony

Categories: body

Within this category: Demerara, frontier settlement, Gibraltar, New Amsterdam, Plantation, Plymouth Colony, proprietary colony

settlement

How to sign: a community of people smaller than a town

Similiar / Same: village, small town

Categories: community

Within this category: moshav

settlement

How to sign: the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies
"the British colonization of America";

Similiar / Same: colonization, colonisation

Categories: constitution, establishment, formation, organisation, organization

Within this category: population