Crossword clues for colonies
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Colony \Col"o*ny\ (k[o^]l"[-o]*n[y^]), n.; pl. Colonies (k[o^]l"[-o]*n[i^]z). [L. colonia, fr. colonus farmer, fr. colere to cultivate, dwell: cf. F. colonie. Cf. Culture.]
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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 first settlers of New England were the best of Englishmen, well educated, devout Christians, and zealous lovers of liberty. There was never a colony formed of better materials.
--Ames. The district or country colonized; a settlement.
a territory subject to the ruling governmental authority of another country and not a part of the ruling country.
A company of persons from the same country sojourning in a foreign city or land; as, the American colony in Paris.
(Nat. Hist.) A number of animals or plants living or growing together, beyond their usual range.
(Bot.) A cell family or group of common origin, mostly of unicellular organisms, esp. among the lower alg[ae]. They may adhere in chains or groups, or be held together by a gelatinous envelope.
(Zo["o]l.) A cluster or aggregation of zooids of any compound animal, as in the corals, hydroids, certain tunicates, etc.
(Zo["o]l.) A community of social insects, as ants, bees, etc.
(Microbiology) a group of microorganisms originating as the descendents of one individual cell, growing on a gelled growth medium, as of gelatin or agar; especially, such a group that has grown to a sufficient number to be visible to the naked eye.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of colony English)
Usage examples of "colonies".
It was true that every year, more real fruit, vegetables, grain, and meat were being made available to the people of Earth from its farming colonies, but the majority of homeworld meals still came from synthesizers.
As an unofficial chair and host of the JOATs present, he was directing the discussion among those from several nascent colonies that had recently earned their Amalgamated Worlds status.
It will take weeks for ships to arrive from Earth or any of the colonies where some of our potential allies reside.
Every Rraladoonan who can scrape up the fare from Earth or one of the colonies comes home.
He was the one to grunt and sweat now, contending with Ireta's heavy morning rain, which penetrated the leafy cover so that mud added to his problems: mud and the colonies of insects that had taken refuge in the shelter of vine and sled.
She flailed away at colonies of slugs, worms, and multilegged insects which had made burrows between the sleds: a mini-ecology that at another time she would have enjoyed examining.
Then they sent the homing capsule to one of the Heavyworld colonies inviting settlers and technicians.
All I want to do is settle down on one of the permanent colonies and maybe fix jets or industrial robots for a living.
The FSP is supposed to protect nascent colonies," the blond woman complained to the man standing beside her.
We're both needed chiefly by the new colonies that are just past the threshold of viability, and hence under FSP protection.
The non-humanoid population is larger than the entire census of most colonies, but on Alpha, it is still a very small minority.
She and Caris, in the old days, watching Carin Coldae re-runs, had planned extravagant sexual adventures: all the handsome men in the galaxy, in all the exotic places, in the midst of saving planets or colonies or catching slavers.
She hadn't realised that human colonies spread that far, but he looked a lot more human than the heavyworlders.
Too many Fleet officers considered the newer colonies more trouble than they were worth.
Although human slavery was technically illegal, colonies were being raided for slaves - and that meant a market somewhere.