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

Our teachers took us to Plymouth Rock, Bunker Hill, Walden Pond, Salem, and most novel for a group of teenage Manhattanites, a real-life mall, the kind we saw only on television.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

In his travels, Tocqueville saw pieces of the famous Plymouth Rock all over: used as doorstops, as paperweights, set in the centers of mantels like the mandibles of sainted martyrs.

From Slate • Nov. 28, 2024

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 • Oct. 16, 2024

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 • Nov. 24, 2022

It was about the Mayflower and Plymouth Rock.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides