Plymouth

[ plim-uhth ]

noun

1. a seaport in SW Devonshire, in SW England, on the English Channel: naval base; the departing point of the Mayflower 1620.
2. a city in SE Massachusetts: the oldest town in New England, founded by the Pilgrims 1620.
3. a town in SE Minnesota.
4. a town in NW Connecticut.
5. a town in and the capital of Montserrat, West Indies.

Plymouth

/ ˈplɪməθ /

noun

1. 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)
2. a unitary authority in SW England, in Devon. Pop: 241 500 (2003 est). Area: 76 sq km (30 sq miles)
3. 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)
4. the former capital of Montserrat, in the Caribbean; largely destroyed by volcanic eruption in 1997

Example Sentences

In 1820, on the town’s bicentennial, the statesman Daniel Webster venerated Plymouth in the racialist language of his age.

From Time

By that point, the ends for which Plymouth would be useful had changed.

From Time

The 14-year-old from Plymouth, Michigan, is one of the top drone racers in the world, and one of the youngest.

From Washington Post

A short walk from the Plymouth waterfront, the gallery’s cool air provides some relief on a sticky September day.

From Time

Now, 400 years later, in another September in Plymouth, the facts of that story are coming in for a reexamination.

From Time

During the middle of this Golden Age, in 1620, the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock.

From The Daily Beast

They burned down my home, killed my dogs, my cat, my rabbit, blew up my 1966 Plymouth Valent.

From The Daily Beast

Please don't mention 1948, wingers--comparing polling then to polling today is like comparing a '48 Plymouth to a new Lexus.

From The Daily Beast

Last winter saw a battle at Plymouth-Canton Community Schools in Michigan.

From The Daily Beast

I grew up about 20 minutes outside of Ann Arbor, Michigan, in Plymouth.

From The Daily Beast

Edward Winslow died; one of the first settlers of Plymouth colony, Mass., and afterwards its governor.

From Project Gutenberg

On my way back to the beach I saw the Plymouth Battalion as it marched in from the front line.

From Project Gutenberg

The engine for Plymouth will be put to break the ground as soon as I can find time to go up there.

From Project Gutenberg

A lady came up one day to the keeper of the light-house near Plymouth, which is a great curiosity.

From Project Gutenberg

Plymouth is the principal government naval port and its ocean commerce is gaining rapidly on that of Liverpool.

From Project Gutenberg