Pennsylvania

American  

[pen-suhl-veyn-yuh, -vey-nee-uh] / ˌpɛn səlˈveɪn yə, -ˈveɪ ni ə /

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.

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Pennsylvania British  

/ 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)

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Pennsylvania Cultural  

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.

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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

Constellation agreed to divest six plants in Texas, Delaware, and Pennsylvania as part of an agreement announced last month with the Texas attorney general and the Department of Justice.

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Emilie Feldman, a management professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, said spinning off a business unit is more complicated than selling one, but can offer tax advantages.

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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan have built the smallest fully programmable autonomous robots ever created.

From Science Daily

She was one of only three Senate Democrats who never joined her party’s blockade against a stopgap spending bill—along with King and Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman.

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Economists at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School worry less about the impact of a wealth tax on the already wealthy and more about how it might further shrink a startup’s odds of success.

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