Definitions for Colonies

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Colonies col·o·ny

Spelling: [kol-uh-nee]

IPA: /ˈkɒl ə ni/

Colonies is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 300 anagrams from letters in Colonies (ceilnoos).

Definitions for Colonies

noun

1. a group of people who leave their native country to form in a new land a settlement subject to, or connected with, the parent nation.
2. the country or district settled or colonized:
3. any people or territory separated from but subject to a ruling power.
4. the Colonies, those British colonies that formed the original 13 states of the United States: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
5. a number of people coming from the same country, or speaking the same language, residing in a foreign country or city, or a particular section of it; enclave:
6. any group of individuals having similar interests, occupations, etc., usually living in a particular locality; community:
7. the district, quarter, or dwellings inhabited by any such number or group:
8. an aggregation of bacteria growing together as the descendants of a single cell.
9. Ecology. a group of organisms of the same kind living or growing in close association.

Origin of Colonies

1350-1400; Middle English colonie (Middle French) Latin colōnia, equivalent to colōn(us) colonus + -ia -y³

Examples for Colonies

And to that old French province the Englishman of the colonies must go to find his country!

And when the men were not wanted for India, they were shipped off to the planters in the American colonies.

Cricket is a sport enjoyed by hundreds of millions around the globe, mainly in former British colonies.

He laboured to ameliorate the condition of the native Indians in the American colonies.

The fate of their colonies will be fought in Europe, not here.

Dr. John Morgan, perhaps the best-trained physician in the colonies, was then the leader.

It remains the receptive petri dish to any and all sorts of colonies of humanity that finally managed to find one another.

Instead, the two colonies were joined in a confederation, with separate legislatures.

The laws carried over to the American colonies, and would ultimately go on the books in 40 U.S. states.

As for furs and leather and lumber, no other town in the colonies compared with Albany.