Word "COLONY" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
Synonyms:
dependency

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
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
Synonyms:
settlement
Examples:
the American colony in Paris

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together

Crossword Clues for COLONY

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A collective noun for ants (6)
Dependent territory (6)
Group of ants in India at one time? (6)
No unsettled area (6)
Two dots - why new settlement? (6)
Coral community LA Times Daily 31 Mar 2024
Outpost The Telegraph Quick 20 Mar 2024
Satellite settlement (6)
Dependent settlement away from the homeland (6)
Settlement only modified by the company (6)
Group of ants in land controlled by another? (6)
Ant _
Bunch of bees Wall Street Journal 14 Dec 2023
Group of bats New York Times 17 Nov 2023
Group of animals or plants living together Irish Times Simplex 17 Apr 2023
Termite group? The Guardian Quick 16 Nov 2022
Settlement: the last to pay
Settlement: the last to pay The Guardian Cryptic 07 Oct 2022
Group of ants or bees USA Today 15 Sep 2022
Settlement The Times Concise 28 Aug 2022
Part of gut last to enjoy settlement The Telegraph Toughie 15 Jun 2022
Group of settlers The Times Concise 14 Mar 2022
Group of ants Universal 06 Feb 2022
Shy about learner working in group
Bunch of bees Wall Street Journal 28 Sep 2020
Ant group Thomas Joseph 16 Sep 2020
Lots of bacteria in part of the gut unknown
Bee bunch Wall Street Journal 14 Mar 2020
Revolutionary territory LA Times Daily 18 Feb 2020
Revolutionary territory The Washington Post 18 Feb 2020
Community around London's West End, reluctant to come forward
Settlement The Telegraph Quick 06 Dec 2019
Dependency on large intestine's source of yeast
Overseas settlement The Times Concise 19 Jul 2019
Mark unknown sort of territory The Telegraph Cryptic 14 Jun 2019
Ant or bee collective USA Today 13 May 2019
Community: closer to locality?
Place for nudists USA Today 06 Apr 2019
Country under control of another and occupied by settlers Irish Times Simplex 23 Feb 2019
Ant or bee collective
Place for nudists
. Settlement: money at last
Ant-sy complex? The Washington Post 07 Nov 2018
Ant-sy complex? LA Times Daily 07 Nov 2018
Stop last of dodgy group of settlers
Ant-sy complex?
Country under control of another Irish Times Simplex 24 Nov 2017
Punctuation mark unknown in settlement
Army officer comes to old American city where people have settled The Telegraph Cryptic 22 Sep 2017
Group of settlers: Yes! Irish Times Crosaire 31 Jul 2017
Part of waste disposal system close to gypsy settlement
Group of bacteria, see, inside rabbit's fur The Telegraph Toughie 28 Mar 2017
Ants, collectively Universal 12 Jul 2016
Groups of bats or beavers LA Times Daily 27 Mar 2016
Ants, collectively
Group of ants USA Today 06 Oct 2015
Group of settlers pass over US city The Telegraph Cryptic 06 Jun 2015
Ant complex LA Times Daily 09 Mar 2015
Ant complex
Group of ants
Pre-independence state
One of the original 13
Plymouth, once
See 66-Across
One of the original 13
Plymouth was one
Maryland, once
See 33-Down
See 33-Down
Georgia, once
Georgia, once
Ant group
Ant group
Georgia, once
*Each circled pair is an abbreviation for one; all 13 are arranged in the roughly north-to-south order in which their representatives (except for John Hancock) signed the Declaration of Independence
Virginia, in the 1600s
*Each circled pair is an abbreviation for one; all 13 are arranged in the roughly north-to-south order in which their representatives (except for John Hancock) signed the Declaration of Independence
Roanoke, once
Artist's home, perhaps
Artist's home, perhaps
Ants unit
Belize, once
Settlement
Belize, once
Virginia, once
Georgia, once
Massachusetts, e.g., before 1776
Virginia, once
Virginia, once
Any of the original 13
Ant habitat
Ant's place
Home for nudists
Plymouth, once
Plymouth, once
New York, once
New York or New Jersey, once
It's settled
Jamestown was one
Ant group
Gibraltar, for example
Group in an ant farm
Jamestown was one
Artist's place, perhaps
Settlement
Settlement
Group of ants
N.Y. in 1775, for one
Hong Kong is one
America, in 1775
One of 13
One of thirteen
New York, formerly.
Settlement.
What Angola is to Portugal.
Kenya, for example.
Name for Massachusetts (with "Old").
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