Colony is valid Scrabble Word

Is colony a scrabble word?
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6 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
13 points in WWF

Definitions for COLONY in dictionary:

NOUN:

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.
people who settle in a new country but remain ruled by their homeland

A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent state; as, the British colonies in America.
The district or country colonized; a settlement.
A company of persons from the same country sojourning in a foreign city or land; as, the American colony in Paris.
A number of animals or plants living or growing together, beyond their usual range.
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 group of organisms of the same type living or growing together
one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated
a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
(microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a group of emigrants living in a new land

Words related to COLONY

Words that contain COLONY

subcolony16 semicolony17

How to use COLONY in a sentence

It was made a Roman colony in the time of Augustus, and became afterwards the most famous city of Gallia Belgica.
Many of us have looked with some concern upon the mere possibility of this German colony being returned to its former owners.
Ahead, it passed through a little colony of houses, perhaps twenty in all.
This offer she made and repeated when she had come to understand accurately on whose behalf this last agent had come to the Colony.
The sight of careless ease, life without labour, and a constant change of pleasures, that obtain in the Bluff Colony, is working harm.
There were a few deaths, only one among the adults, the result of an accident, the health of the colony having been excellent.
William and Mary in 1691 granted a new charter and united the Plymouth colony, Massachusetts, Maine, and Nova Scotia, in one colony called Massachusetts Bay.
Indeed the financial prospects of this branch of the scheme are more hopeful than these of the City Colony.
That very night, being joined by the Lockos, we surrounded the colony by an extensive circle, and continuing to close as we advanced.
My own observation partly confirms these views, though I have been too short a time in the colony to form an undistrusted opinion.

If the gods of Nongkause had excited a less perfect trust, there might have been a rush on Cape Colony.
In a new colony, where almost all the draught is performed by bullocks, cart horses must realize a good price.
The legal status of the company was unfavorable, for it was in a hopeless tangle, and the death record in the colony was an appalling fact.
The relations between the colony and the London merchant adventurers, never very pleasant, became more unsatisfactory as time went on.
One of these meetings was called the court of elections, and at this were chosen the governor and other officers of the colony for the ensuing year.
Does the individuality of a colony increase its wealth or numbers? If it does, pay equally.
There was great joy in the Latin Quarter when it was known that the Southern Colony had won at Wisbaden, and meant to pay its debts.
On the 21st of April, the Massachusetts Council communicated the fact in writing to the Plymouth Colony.
It was founded by a colony of 730 Greeks, who, fleeing from the oppression of the Turks, arrived and settled here, by the permission of the Genoese, in March 1676.
In retaliation the Bushmen were long the scourge of the farms on the outer borders of the colony, making raids on the cattle and driving them off in large numbers.
In 1866, the colony was united with Vancouver Island under the general designation of British Columbia.
He told us however that we were near a cattle station where two white men had been recently established, having come from the colony along our track over the mountains.
Two days before we left Tai-ping-pu, three of the Lisos guided my wife and me to a large cave where they said there was a colony of bats.
Hutchinson and her friends were ordered to leave the colony.
Hadrian established a new city on the site of Jerusalem, which he called AElia Capitolina, and peopled with a colony of foreigners.
Only one of his pet proposals seems to have been altogether lost sight of, his oft-repeated demand that the Governor of the Colony should be elected by the people.
A great victory in Natal would save Natal, stop the Cape rising, and, if followed up, draw the Boer forces away from Kimberley and the Cape Colony.
On tapping at a door, I found the entire colony assembled.
In 1903, shortly after the Boer war, Lord Curzon strongly urged the British Government to enforce their redress in the Transvaal whilst it was still governed as a Crown Colony.

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