Groups and collections
Synonyms for colony
The synonym for colony recorded in this bank is settlement, in the sense "a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for colony
- settlementnoun, in the sense "a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for colony.
a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland
The American colony in Paris.
The true synonym
settlement
Same sentence, swapped: The American settlement in Paris.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where colony stands in the sentence above.
- dependency
- leadership
- corps
Where colony turns up in the game
colony is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in five other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 5 puzzles where colony is the trap
- administrationnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is brass, in the sense "the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something", and colony is on the board beside it.
- enclavenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is pocket, in the sense "a small distinct area enclosed within a larger one", and colony is on the board beside it.
- settlementnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is resolution, in the sense "something settled or resolved", with colony sitting one tile away.
- posteritynoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is descendants, in the sense "all of the offspring of a given progenitor", with colony sitting one tile away.
Play colony
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so colony reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because groups and collections is the company colony keeps.
The same bank, read from both sides
colony is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 5. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.