Definitions For Colony

noun

  • A group of organisms of the same type living or growing together
  • (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
  • 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
  • A geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
  • A place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated
  • One of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
  • An area that is controlled by or belongs to a country and is usually far away from it
  • A group of people sent by a country to live in such a colony
  • A group of plants or animals living or growing in one place

Is Colonies a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
10
Words with Friends
13

The word Colony is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Colony in a Sentence

  • Massachusetts was one of the original 13 British colonies that later became the United States.
  • A former French colony in Africa

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