Colonies is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for COLONIES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• COLONY, a settlement of emigrants in a new land
• a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country
• a group of people living in a colony, consisting of the original settlers and their descendants and successors
• all the foreign countries or areas formerly under British political control
• the thirteen areas on the east coast of North America that gained independence from Britain and founded the United States of America.
• a group of people of one nationality or race living in a foreign place
• a place where a group of people with the same occupation or interest live together
• a community of animals or plants of one kind living close together or forming a physically connected structure
• a group of fungi or bacteria grown from a single spore or cell on a culture medium.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• pl. of colony

Words related to COLONIES

colony11

Words that contain COLONIES

subcolonies15 semicolonies16

How to use COLONIES in a sentence

• The colonies differed very much in the character of their populations, in the nature of their economic interests, and in their political antecedents.
• The trade with the British colonies in the West Indies has not as yet been arranged, by treaty or otherwise, to our satisfaction.
• The Loyalists themselves always maintained that they constituted an actual majority in the Thirteen Colonies.
• The men who formed these Miami Company colonies came largely from the Middle States.
• His enemies have accused him of stirring the colonies to revolt by his bitter sarcasm directed at past and contemporaneous Spanish rulers, but this is doubtless an exaggeration.
• The Government, in order to create a supply of labour in the colonies, have been in the habit of giving certain rewards to those individuals who introduced labourers into them.
• Not its least use is, that it gives the people of one colony the opportunity of knowing what is going on in the other colonies.
• In other cases great trading companies were organized to found colonies.
• More revenue was absolutely necessary and Grenville began to search for it, turning his attention finally to the American colonies.
• Real learning was confined, after all, to the ministers and the richer classes in the New England colonies, pretty much as in the mother-country.
• Of his books the volumes on the Puritan colonies are distinctly of a higher order than his volume on the southern colonies.
• I expect he will find you with Spain at your feet, but England still afloat, and a barrier to the Spanish colonies.
• These colonies covered a territory stretching over five thousand miles from North to South.
• In several of our larger colonies and in at least one European country there is obviously ample room for increase in the consumption.
• In all these cities the foreign colonies are as distinct and practically as isolated socially as though they were in Russia or Poland, Italy or Hungary.
• During the war the colonies of North America had grown rich by piracy.
• The violent measures, too, pursued against the Colonies in the reign of Charles the Second, the mockery of a trial, and the forfeiture of the charters, were serious evils.
• The army was inadequate, and the town, which was the central point of the colonies, as well as the great river at its side, was wholly unprotected.
• The tide of invasion might ebb and flow in this region or that, but the British were doomed if they could not divide the eastern colonies from the others.
• In August, 1774, he went to Philadelphia as a delegate to a general council of the colonies called to concert measures for united action.
• Colonies, composed for the most part of veteran soldiers, were settled throughout the empire.
• The citizens of the Philippines are discontented at the partial diversion of their trade to the American colonies.
• It is far from the Eastern colonies, divided by mountains, the forest, and Indians.
• Beginning with the German colonies two other sets of colonies could be added, for obvious reasons.
• The Colonies, in the mean time, had been fighting Nature and the wild men of the forest, getting a kind of education as they went along.

Similar words containing LONIE without suffix s and without prefix co

polonie9 felonies11 polonies10 melonier10 meloniest11 gonfalonier15 subcolonies15 gonfaloniers16 semicolonies16

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