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The answer COLONIES has 10 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of colonies in various dictionaries:
noun - a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland
noun - a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together
noun - one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
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| Social insects, termites live in groups of a few hundred to several million called these |
| Socially, egrets live in these, which makes them sound like they lived during the American Revolution |
| The 13 stripes on the American flag represent the 13 original ones of these |
| From the Latin for "farmer", it's the term for a community of hives, which can reach up to 60,000 individuals in size |
| Like ants, most bats live in large groups called these |
| The yellow-eyed penguin doesn't form these breeding groups like other penguins but builds solo nests |
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| Plural form of colony. |
| a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country. |
| a group of people of one nationality or race living in a foreign place. |
| A country or area under the full or partial political control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country. |
| A group of people of one nationality or race living in a foreign place. |
| A community of animals or plants of one kind living close together or forming a physically connected structure. |
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In history, a colony is a territory under the immediate complete political control of a state, distinct from the home territory of the sovereign. For colonies in antiquity, city-states would often found their own colonies. Some colonies were historically countries, while others were territories without definite statehood from their inception. * The metropolitan state is the state that rules the colony. In Ancient Greece, the city that founded a colony was known as the metropolis. "Mother country" is a reference to the metropolitan state from the point of view of citizens who live in its colony. There is a United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories. * Unlike a puppet state or satellite state, a colony has no independent international representation, and its top-level administration is under direct control of the metropolitan state. * The term informal colony is used by some historians to refer to a country under the de facto control of another state, although this term is often con |