Plymouth
Americannoun
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a seaport in SW Devonshire, in SW England, on the English Channel: naval base; the departing point of the Mayflower 1620.
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a city in SE Massachusetts: the oldest town in New England, founded by the Pilgrims 1620.
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a town in SE Minnesota.
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a town in NW Connecticut.
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a town in and the capital of Montserrat, West Indies.
noun
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a port in SW England, in Plymouth unitary authority, SW Devon, on Plymouth Sound (an inlet of the English Channel): Britain's chief port in Elizabethan times; the last port visited by the Pilgrim Fathers in the Mayflower before sailing to America; naval base; university (1992). Pop: 243 795 (2001)
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a unitary authority in SW England, in Devon. Pop: 241 500 (2003 est). Area: 76 sq km (30 sq miles)
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a city in SE Massachusetts, on Plymouth Bay: the first permanent European settlement in New England; founded by the Pilgrim Fathers. Pop: 54 109 (2003 est)
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the former capital of Montserrat, in the Caribbean; largely destroyed by volcanic eruption in 1997
Example Sentences
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It will then extend across further parts of England and Wales on Wednesday and Thursday, moving north to cover Manchester and north Wales, and further west towards Plymouth.
From BBC • Jun. 21, 2026
The origins of American liberty lay deep in the Puritan soil of New England as the cultural memory of Plymouth and the English Civil War energized the 18th century’s revolutionary spirit.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
The Plymouth Colony, Mr. Reynolds writes, stood out to later Americans as “a beacon of democratic experimentation and egalitarianism.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
Our BBC team has travelled across the UK - including to Plymouth, Rochdale, Shrewsbury, Newport and Bradford - exposing what we have found to be brazen criminality on the High Street.
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026
Massasoit shepherded his people through the wave of settlement, and the pact he signed with Plymouth lasted for more than fifty years.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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