Plymouth
Americannoun
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a seaport in SW Devonshire, in SW England, on the English Channel: naval base; the departing point of the Mayflower 1620.
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a city in SE Massachusetts: the oldest town in New England, founded by the Pilgrims 1620.
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a town in SE Minnesota.
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a town in NW Connecticut.
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a town in and the capital of Montserrat, West Indies.
noun
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a port in SW England, in Plymouth unitary authority, SW Devon, on Plymouth Sound (an inlet of the English Channel): Britain's chief port in Elizabethan times; the last port visited by the Pilgrim Fathers in the Mayflower before sailing to America; naval base; university (1992). Pop: 243 795 (2001)
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a unitary authority in SW England, in Devon. Pop: 241 500 (2003 est). Area: 76 sq km (30 sq miles)
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a city in SE Massachusetts, on Plymouth Bay: the first permanent European settlement in New England; founded by the Pilgrim Fathers. Pop: 54 109 (2003 est)
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the former capital of Montserrat, in the Caribbean; largely destroyed by volcanic eruption in 1997
Example Sentences
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Devon rescue group Prickles in a Pickle said it had received a surge of reports of hedgehogs washed from nests in the Plymouth, Kingsbridge, Ivybridge and Dartmouth areas.
From BBC
Last year a group of researchers from Nasa, the University of Plymouth and University of Texas called on the UN to include the protection of Earth's orbit in its sustainable development goals.
From BBC
For some, that description by Plymouth City Council leader Tudor Evans and the images of the collapse 12 years ago came to embody Britain's crumbling Victorian railways.
From BBC
Our teachers took us to Plymouth Rock, Bunker Hill, Walden Pond, Salem, and most novel for a group of teenage Manhattanites, a real-life mall, the kind we saw only on television.
"It's the biggest change that's happened here in the last 10 years," said Gerd Masselink, professor of coastal geomorphology at the University of Plymouth and an expert in how our coastline is evolving.
From BBC
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