New England

American  

noun

1. an area in the NE United States, including the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

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New England British  

noun

1. the NE part of the US, consisting of the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut: settled originally chiefly by Puritans in the mid-17th century

2. a region in SE Australia, in the northern tablelands of New South Wales

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New England Cultural  

1. Region in the northeastern United States that includes Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

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The region is thought to have been named by Captain John Smith for its resemblance to the English coast.

Other Word Forms

• New Englander noun
• New Englandish adjective

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• England vs. New England

Example Sentences

There’s no New England weather frigid enough to keep people from buying iced coffees.

From The Wall Street Journal

Organizers said they could provide a financial backstop — aided by the Kraft Group, which owns the stadium as well as primary tenant the New England Patriots — on June 1 if federal funds remain delayed.

From MarketWatch

The study, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, found that children with Dravet syndrome experienced seizure reductions of up to 91 percent while regularly receiving an investigational drug called zorevunersen.

From Science Daily

The early trial results, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, show the experimental treatment can be given safely to adolescents and young children, from the age of two onwards.

From BBC

And two Americans: Kenyon, a wry, observant, skeptical humanist sculptor, perhaps a stand-in for Hawthorne himself; and Hilda, a New England Puritan painter—self-possessed, pious, unswervingly loyal, pure as a flight of doves.

From The Wall Street Journal