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PLYMOUTH COLONY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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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