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PLYMOUTH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A town in Massachusetts founded by Pilgrims in 1620
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)
Meronyms (parts of "Plymouth"):
Plymouth Colony (colony formed by the Pilgrims when they arrived at Plymouth Rock in 1620; it was absorbed into the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1691)
Plymouth Rock (a boulder in Plymouth supposed to be where the Pilgrims disembarked from the Mayflower)
Holonyms ("Plymouth" is a part of...):
Bay State; MA; Mass.; Massachusetts; Old Colony (a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies)
Context examples:
They took a lodging in the house where I lived, for a week; at the expiration of which time they were to start for Plymouth.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
But surely this event could not have found its way into the Plymouth morning papers.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was four years with my uncle, who lives at Longstaple, near Plymouth.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I brought her into Plymouth; and here another instance of luck.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
The influence of my family being local, it is their wish that Mr. Micawber should go down to Plymouth.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I may tell you that I had got as far as Plymouth upon my way to Africa, but the news reached me this morning, and I came straight back again to help in the inquiry.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"No," replied Elinor, most feelingly sensible of every fresh circumstance in favour of Lucy's veracity; "I remember he told us, that he had been staying a fortnight with some friends near Plymouth."
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I was at Plymouth dreading to hear of him; he sent in letters, but the Grappler was under orders for Portsmouth.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
In fact, that branch of my family which is settled in Plymouth became quite personal to Mr. Micawber, before we had been there a week.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Of your return from Plymouth, allowing much of your property to go on to Africa, I will say nothing save that it first informed me that you were one of the factors which had to be taken into account in reconstructing this drama—
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
