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colony

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"Settlement"

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈkɒl.ə.ni/Part of speech nounSorted clnooyStarts with CEnds with Y1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together

Word origin

From Middle English colane, colonye, from Latin colōnia (“colony”), from colōnus (“farmer; colonist”), from colō (“till, cultivate, worship”), from earlier *quelō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”). Doublet of Cologne, Colonia, and Köln.

Used in a sentence

  • Much of the eastern United States was formerly a British colony; other areas were French, Spanish, Dutch, or Swedish colonies.
  • Bermuda is a crown colony of Great Britain.
  • […] money problems and refusal to supply them with British coins were two big reasons why the thirteen colonies rebelled and declared their independence.

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