Scrabble and Words with Friends

• COLONY is a valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. Scrabble uses the TWL word list.
  

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• COLONY is a valid Words with Friends word worth 13 points. Words with Friends uses the ENABLE word list.
  

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• COLONY is a 6 letter word containing the letters c, l, n, o, o, y.

Definitions

• colony

  noun 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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• colony

  noun a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together

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• Colony

  noun one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States

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• colony

  noun 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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• colony

  noun a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country

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• colony

  noun (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell

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• Lookup COLONY using the Merriam-Webster dictionary

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Words that sound like 'colony'

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