Clues for the word "COLONY"
We've had 47 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 62 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mirror Mini crossword on February 05, 2025.
Definition of colony
- n. - 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.
- n. - The district or country colonized; a settlement.
- n. - A company of persons from the same country sojourning in a foreign city or land; as, the American colony in Paris.
- n. - A number of animals or plants living or growing together, beyond their usual range.
Referring Clues
- Artist's place, perhaps
- Virginia, once
- Any of the original 13
- Massachusetts, e.g., before 1776
- Group in an ant farm
- Gibraltar, for example
- New York or New Jersey, once
- Home for nudists
- Georgia, once
- Artist's home, perhaps
- Belize, once
- Ants unit
- Settlement
- 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
- See 33-Down
- Ant group
- Plymouth was one
- Roanoke, once
- Group of termites
- Massachusetts, long ago
- Massachusetts, originally
- Maryland, once
- Group of ants
- One of the original 13
- Plymouth, once
- See 66-Across
- Ant digs
- Ant complex
- Groups of bats or beavers
- Ants, collectively
- Ant habitat
- Ant's home
- Dependent settlement away from the homeland
- Part of waste disposal system close to gypsy settlement
- Officer on unknown outpost
- Settlement: yours initially
- Stop your first settlement
- Ant-sy complex?
- Place for nudists
- Ant or bee collective
- Revolutionary territory
- Bee bunch
- Group of ants or bees
- Outpost
- Group of bats
- Coral community
Last Seen In
- Mirror Mini - February 05, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 09, 2024
- LA Times - March 31, 2024
- New York Times - November 17, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - February 16, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - December 05, 2022
- USA Today - September 15, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - August 08, 2022
- Mirror Mini - February 05, 2018
- Guardian Quick - November 07, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - July 25, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - May 21, 2017
- Mirror Mini - February 05, 2017
- Universal - July 12, 2016
- Evening Standard Easy - May 25, 2016
- LA Times - March 27, 2016
- USA Today - October 06, 2015
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - April 03, 2015
- LA Times - March 09, 2015
- LA Times Sunday - March 23, 2014
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 08, 2014
- LA Times - November 28, 2013
- USA Today - October 02, 2013
- LA Times - July 15, 2013
- Universal - March 25, 2012
- New York Times - March 04, 2012
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - October 22, 2011
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - May 19, 2011
- LA Times - April 23, 2011
- LA Times - March 20, 2011
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