Definitions for colony

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colony col·o·ny

Spelling: [kol-uh-nee]

IPA: /ˈkɒl ə ni/

Colony is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 63 anagrams from letters in colony (clnooy).

Definitions for colony

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.
10. The, a city in NE Texas.

Origin of colony

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

Examples for colony

We hastened on, and to our delight found one of the best springs in the colony.

I still think of America,” she once told an interviewer, “as a colony of Europe.

And by the way, if we really are just a colony of Europe, where did the rock and roll she professed to love so much come from?

This was his way of saying that he had more labor to get through than any other man in the colony.

Since they came to this colony they had been fed and clothed, and no one would take any money.

For over a century, Hong Kong was a colony of the British Empire.

He was born in the country, which was a British colony called Northern Rhodesia at the time, but his parents were not.

Adjoining the latter was a colony of quiet and inoffensive Beavers.

What the colony looked for was, that every man who went into the Council would do his duty.

Hong Kong is a British colony, so really got influenced by European culture.