Noun

• S: (n) colony, settlement (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) "the American colony in Paris"
• S: (n) village, small town, settlement (a community of people smaller than a town)
• S: (n) settlement (a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it)
• S: (n) colonization, colonisation, settlement (the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies) "the British colonization of America"
• S: (n) settlement, resolution, closure (something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making) "they finally reached a settlement with the union"; "they never did achieve a final resolution of their differences"; "he needed to grieve before he could achieve a sense of closure"
• S: (n) settlement (an area where a group of families live together)
• S: (n) liquidation, settlement (termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities)