Pennsylvania

[pen-suhl-veyn-yuh, -vey-nee-uh]

noun

1. a state in the eastern United States. 45,333 sq. mi. (117,410 sq. km). Harrisburg. PA (for use with zip code), Pa., Penn., Penna.

Pennsylvania

/ ˌpɛnsɪlˈveɪnɪə /

noun

1. Abbreviation: Pa.  Penn.  Penna.  PA. a state of the northeastern US: almost wholly in the Appalachians, with the Allegheny Plateau to the west and a plain in the southeast; the second most important US state for manufacturing. Capital: Harrisburg. Pop: 12 365 455 (2003 est). Area: 116 462 sq km (44 956 sq miles)

Pennsylvania

1. State in the northeastern United States bordered by Lake Erie and New York to the north; New Jersey to the east; Delaware, Maryland, and West Virginia to the south; and Ohio to the west. Its capital is Harrisburg, and its largest city is Philadelphia.

Named after the father of William Penn, a devout Quaker, who was granted proprietary rights by the king of England to almost the whole of what is now Pennsylvania in the late seventeenth century.

One of the thirteen colonies.

Example Sentences

Other institutions that received the 10-page proposal are: Vanderbilt, the University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth College, the University of Arizona, Brown University, the University of Texas and the University of Virginia.

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The town and farm life he’d lived in Pennsylvania governed his imagination with even more intensity than the suburban Massachusetts world in which he would spend his adulthood.

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Henry Kissinger, among others, went to school—Harvard, after being turned down at Columbia, Cornell, New York University, the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton—on the GI Bill.

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“We’ve seen this proliferation of expenses essentially happening in the background,” said Wendy De La Rosa, a marketing professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton business school.

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J Nicholas Betley is an associate professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Arts & Sciences.

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