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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New England

Move over, Jaws: Quaint New England beaches face painful new threat.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

More than 125 million people watched NBCUniversal’s coverage of Super Bowl LX in February, in which the Seattle Seahawks defeated the New England Patriots.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

The research team analyzed blood samples from 213 participants in the New England Centenarian Study, one of the largest investigations of exceptionally long lived people in North America.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

"It is the opposite of the Yankee Greater New England philosophy."

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

These pines were not like the thick, cone-shaped trees of New England.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt