Definitions for colonus

colonus co·lo·nus

Spelling: [kuh-loh-nuh s]
IPA: /kəˈloʊ nəs/

Colonus is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 114 anagrams from letters in colonus (clnoosu).

Definitions for colonus

noun

  1. a serf in the latter period of the Roman Empire or in the early feudal period.

Origin of colonus

1885-90; Latin colōnus inhabitant of a colony, tenant-farmer, farmer, derivative of colere to inhabit, till, cultivate; cf. cult, cultivate<

Examples for colonus

He argued that the Roman name was colonus, which readily was transformed to a Spanish equivalent.

The "Antigone" and "Œdipus at colonus" of Sophocles are of exquisite tenderness and beauty.

In 405 Sophocles showed in his last play how Oedipus passed from earth in the poet's own birthplace, colonus.

Then seek there a man by name of Tobias, a colonus and a worker in ivory for the good Christian priests.

After touching the dead Jocasta and his two sons, he passes to exile and rest at colonus.

Here he first taught philosophy; afterwards in the Gardens of colonus.

The poet, preserving his habitual calmness, recited the famous chorus which contains the praises of colonus.

The place to which they had come was in Attica, hear the city of colonus.

He lived to be ninety years old, and produced the most beautiful of his tragedies in his eightieth year, the "Oedipus at colonus."

A Chorus from colonus comes to find out who the suppliant is.

Word Value for colonus
Scrable

9

Words with friends

13

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