New Bedford

American  

noun

1. a seaport in SE Massachusetts: formerly a chief whaling port.

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New Bedford British  

noun

1. a port and resort in SE Massachusetts, near Buzzards Bay: settled by Plymouth colonists in 1652; a leading whaling port (18th–19th centuries). Pop: 94 112 (2003 est)

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Example Sentences

In New Bedford, Mass., Iola Bizarro works 40 hours a week at a golf-ball factory.

From The Wall Street Journal

The rent for the three-bedroom New Bedford apartment she shares with her two children is $1,600 a month, and car payments eat up an additional $756.54.

From The Wall Street Journal

The details of the ordeal have been changed for “Swept Away,” which is set in 1888 on a whaling ship off the coast of New Bedford, Mass.

From New York Times

Fearing human traffickers, Douglass, now married to Anna Murray, fled again to New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he gained a reputation as an orator speaking out against slavery with the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society.

From Seattle Times

David Ruggles told Frederick and his new bride, Anna Murray—they were married in Ruggles’s parlor—to head north to New Bedford, Massachusetts, a haven for freed blacks.

From Literature