mayflower

[ mey-flou-er ]

noun

1. any of various plants that blossom in May, such as the hepatica or anemone in the United States, and the hawthorn or cowslip in England.
2. trailing arbutus ( def ).
3. Mayflower, the ship in which the Pilgrims sailed from Southampton, England, to North America in 1620.

mayflower

¹

/ ˈmeɪˌflaʊə /

noun

1. any of various plants that bloom in May
2. See trailing arbutus
   another name for trailing arbutus
3. See marsh marigold, cowslip, hawthorn
   another name for hawthorn cowslip marsh marigold

Mayflower

²

/ ˈmeɪˌflaʊə /

noun

1. the Mayflower
   the Mayflower the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to Massachusetts in 1620

Mayflower

1. The ship that carried the Pilgrims to America. It made a permanent landing near Plymouth Rock in 1620, after the Pilgrims had agreed to the Mayflower Compact .

Word History and Origins

Origin of mayflower¹

First recorded in 1560–70; May + flower

Example Sentences

They picked me up in the District, and I gave them a place to drop me off in the District—around the Mayflower Hotel.

From The Daily Beast

It turned out that Titanic had a wife, Mrs. Alice Thomas, who had been living with him at the Mayflower Hotel.

From The Daily Beast

Were the Christmas-hating Puritans on the Mayflower “Scrooges”?

From The Daily Beast

In Ghost Hawk, the “invaders from over the sea” are the English settlers on the Mayflower and later.

From The Daily Beast

Loyalists included recent immigrants and Mayflower descendants alike.

From The Daily Beast

The president sat in a chair which came over with the pilgrims in their ship, the Mayflower.

From Project Gutenberg

The colonists of Plymouth had formed their social compact in the cabin of the Mayflower.

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While Standish and his men were busy exploring, the Mayflower rode at anchor, and its inmates barely escaped a horrible death.

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Here they found friends waiting for them, and all ready to sail in the Mayflower.

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The Mayflower boxed the compass, rounding the tip of the Cape and feeling her way in the circular harbor there.

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