Lost Colony

American  

[lawst kol-uh-nee, lost] / ˈlɔst ˈkɒl ə ni, ˈlɒst /

noun

American History.

1. a settlement of British colonists whom Walter Raleigh sent to Roanoke Island (now part of North Carolina) in 1587 and of whom no trace was found after 1591.

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Etymology

Origin of Lost Colony

First recorded in 1800–05

Example Sentences

It is called “The Lost Colony and Hatteras Island,” and echos many of the sentiments he has voiced for years.

From Washington Times • Aug. 22, 2020

It is called ‘The Lost Colony and Hatteras Island,’ and echoes many of the sentiments he has voiced for years.

From Fox News • Aug. 19, 2020

Lawler, a journalist, explores in his latest book the haunting real-life mystery of a lost English settlement in the New World: “The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke.”

From Seattle Times • Jul. 27, 2018

Lawler also does a good job conveying the strangeness of one of the central figures of the Lost Colony mystery: the wayward governor, John White.

From Washington Post • Jul. 19, 2018

Raleigh's second attempt a year later to establish a colony on Roanoke Island ended in the pathetic story of little Virginia Dare and the "Lost Colony."

From In Ancient Albemarle by Pugh, Mabel