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PLYMOUTH COLONY

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• PLYMOUTH COLONY (noun)
The noun PLYMOUTH COLONY has 1 sense:

1. colony formed by the Pilgrims when they arrived at Plymouth Rock in 1620; it was absorbed into the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1691

Familiarity information: PLYMOUTH COLONY used as a noun is very rare.

• PLYMOUTH COLONY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Colony formed by the Pilgrims when they arrived at Plymouth Rock in 1620; it was absorbed into the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1691

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

colony; settlement (a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government)

Holonyms ("Plymouth Colony" is a part of...):

Plymouth (a town in Massachusetts founded by Pilgrims in 1620)

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