Crossword-Solution: COLONIES
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Colonies | pl. | of Colony |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| COLONIES | anagram | COLONISE, ECLOSION |
We have 4 clues for the answer “COLONIES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Bunches of bees and blackbirds | 1 answer |
| Dahomey, Kenya, Mauritania. | 1 answer |
| Groups of ants | 1 answer |
| Thirteen that rebelled | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TERAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with COLONIES (5)
The East-Indian and Chinese markets, the colonisation of America, trade with the colonies, the increase in the means of exchange and in commodities generally, gave to commerce, to navigation, to industry, an impulse never before known, and thereby, to the revolutionary element in the tottering feudal society, a rapid development.
One of the most diverse elements in American life was introduced when Africans were forcibly brought to the American colonies.
The Honourable Ronald Adair was the second son of the Earl of Maynooth, at that time governor of one of the Australian colonies.
Menelek XIV is the undisputed ruler of all the continent of Africa, of all of ancient Europe except the British Isles, Scandinavia, and eastern Russia, and has large possessions and prosperous colonies in what once were Arabia and Turkey in Asia.
After carefully analyzing these editions and weighing probabilities with ascertained facts, I am able pretty confidently to say that the aggregate number of copies circulated in Great Britain and the colonies exceeds one and a half millions." Later, abridgments were published.
Quotes with COLONIES (3)
Your daughter is ugly. She knows loss intimately, carries whole cities in her belly. As a child, relatives wouldn’t hold her. She was splintered wood and sea water. They said she reminded them of the war. On her fifteenth birthday you taught herhow to tie her hair like rope and smoke it over burning frankincense. You made her gargle rosewaterand while she coughed, saidmacaanto girls like you shouldn’t smellof lonely or empty. You are her mother. Why did you not warn her, hold…
You are her mother. Why did you not warn her, hold her like a rotting boatand tell her that men will not love herif she is covered in continents, if her teeth are small colonies, if her stomach is an islandif her thighs are borders? What man wants to lie downand watch the world burnin his bedroom? Your daughter ’s face is a small riot, her hands are a civil war, a refugee camp behind each ear, a body littered with ugly things. But God, doesn’t she wearthe world well?
I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1953–2024).