Plymouth Rock

American  

noun

1. a rock at Plymouth, Massachusetts, on which the Pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower are said to have stepped ashore when they landed in America in 1620.

2. one of an American breed of medium-sized chickens, raised for meat and eggs.

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Plymouth Rock British  

noun

1. a heavy American breed of domestic fowl bred for meat and laying

2. a boulder on the coast of Massachusetts: traditionally thought to be the landing place of the Pilgrim Fathers (1620) See also Mayflower

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Plymouth Rock Cultural  

1. The rock, in what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts, near which the Mayflower, carrying the Pilgrims, landed in 1620.

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Example Sentences

I drove through New Mexico, where Latinos have farmed since before the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, and spent time in tiny Antonito, Colo., home to the oldest Latino civil rights group in the country.

From Los Angeles Times

He added that “American history did not start with Plymouth Rock.”

From Washington Post

U.S. schoolchildren learn to trace the holiday to Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620 and celebrated the autumn harvest with the Wampanoag peoples.

From Reuters

A stone that serves as the bookend to Plymouth Rock.

From Salon

And to sort of marginalize where it happened, and to tell the story of the beginning of the country with Plymouth Rock as opposed to Jamestown — we forget how we came to be.

From Washington Post