colony
NOUN
/kɑləni/
6 LETTERS · 3 SYLLABLES · STARTS WITH C
colony is a valid 6-letter word worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
SCRABBLE
WORDS WITH FRIENDS
C3O1L1O1N1Y4
3 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 4 =11 PTS
DOUBLE WORD → 22TRIPLE WORD → 33
MEANING
What does colony mean?
NOUN · 6 SENSES
1
A geographical area politically controlled by a distant country.
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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.
“the American colony in Paris”
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A group of organisms of the same type living or growing together.
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A place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated.
“a nudist colony”
“an artists' colony”
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(microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell.
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One of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States.
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