Rhode Island

[ rohd ]

noun

1. a state of the northeastern United States, on the Atlantic coast: a part of New England. 1,214 square miles (3,145 square kilometers). : Providence. : RI (for use with zip code), R.I.

Rhode Island

/ rəʊd /

noun

1. a state of the northeastern US, bordering on the Atlantic: the smallest state in the US; mainly low-lying and undulating, with an indented coastline in the east and uplands in the northwest Capital: Providence. Pop: 1 076 164 (2003 est). Area: 2717 sq km (1049 sq miles) AbbreviationsR.Iwith zip codeRI

Rhode Island

1. State in the northeastern United States; one of the New England states. Bordered by Massachusetts to the north and east, the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and Connecticut to the west. Its capital and largest city is Providence .

Notes

After he was banished from Massachusetts for speaking out in favor of religious toleration, Roger Williams established the first settlement in the area at Providence in the early seventeenth century.

One of the thirteen colonies .

Rhode Island is the smallest state of the United States.

Other Words From

• Rhode Islander noun

Example Sentences

Rhode Island, or at least Democratic lawmakers there, beg to differ.

From Washington Post

After selling the pieces as bonuses in cereal boxes, Lerner later sold the rights to the Rhode Island company Hassenfield Brothers, which would become Hasbro.

From Washington Post

Jayda Williams, a high school senior in Providence, Rhode Island, has her own laptop, a school-issued Chromebook, and a stable home internet connection.

From MIT Technology Review

From New York and Rhode Island in the Northeast to Arizona in the Southwest, cases and deaths are up in states nationwide.

From Washington Post

As far as the union’s concerned, they’re not welcome in Rhode Island.

From ProPublica

Schmidt had arrived in California after his family had been wiped out by tuberculosis in his home state of Rhode Island.

From The Daily Beast

"I need you to look at me," Bob Healey Jr. said to the camera in the first Rhode Island gubernatorial debate last month.

From The Daily Beast

In an election year where money bought victories nationwide, the Rhode Island governor's race was no exception.

From The Daily Beast

In Rhode Island, Healey may have simply been the right man at the right time.

From The Daily Beast

Emily, in fact, will be staying with him on the weekends while she finishes her master's degree at a college in Rhode Island.

From The Daily Beast

That the Eleventh did not accomplish all that the men composing it expected it would when it left Rhode Island is admitted.

From Project Gutenberg

In Rhode Island, so far as my knowledge extends, the largest bounty paid any one person was one hundred and fifty dollars.

From Project Gutenberg

Here we found the Fourth regiment, and the reception which the boys gave us was next to getting back to Rhode Island itself.

From Project Gutenberg

From the resistance to this uniformity came Rhode Island and the doctrine of soul liberty.

From Project Gutenberg

Thus the reconciliation of liberty and law formed from the beginning the fundamental problem of Rhode Island history.

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