pennsylvania
IPA: pɛnsʌɫvˈeɪnjʌ
Root Word: Pennsylvania
noun
- A state of the United States. Capital: Harrisburg; largest city: Philadelphia.
- (historical) A former colony of England, from 1681 to 1707, and of Great Britain, from 1707 to 1776, which grew progressively larger before becoming the present state.
- The first, and historically largest, now defunct US railroad, a hallmark of the industrial age.
- An unincorporated community in Mobile County, Alabama, United States.
- A suburb of Exeter, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX9294).
- A hamlet in Cold Ashton parish, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST7473).
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Examples of "pennsylvania" in Sentences
- A Pennsylvania railroad is in the background.
- The people of Pennsylvania are devoted to the Union.
- The Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania granted this dispensation.
- As such, they are answerable to the governor of Pennsylvania.
- The conversational function of Pennsylvania Dutch intonation.
- A lock for the Pennsylvania Canal was located on the riverbank.
- Pennsylvania today is the center of American pretzel production.
- The skyscraper is officially the tallest building in Pennsylvania.
- It was in Pennsylvania that he served in the Union Army as a laborer.
- The department is headed by the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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