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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"There will be no decisions made today," Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz said on Friday on what could happen next in the case.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
He dated America not from Jamestown, Plymouth or the Constitution but from 1776—a nation “conceived in Liberty” and dedicated to equality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
The jury of nine women and three men in Plymouth has deliberated for some 35 hours without a verdict, following nearly six weeks of trial proceedings.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
In four major speeches Douglass extolled the Mayflower, joining antislavery figures who looked back to the Plymouth settlers—who established government by consent and initially did not legalize slavery—as an ur-source of abolitionism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Before the pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
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