Scrabble?! COLONIES

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

noun - a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated

noun - a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country

noun - (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell

noun - a group of emigrants living in a new land