Winthrop

American  

[win-thruhp] / ˈwɪn θrəp /

noun

1. John, 1588–1649, English colonist in America: 1st governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony 1629–33, 1637–40, 1642–44, 1646–49.

2. his son John, 1606–76, English colonist in America: colonial governor of Connecticut 1657, 1659–76.

3. John or Fitz-John 1638–1707, American soldier and statesman: colonial governor of Connecticut 1698–1707 (son of the younger John Winthrop).

4. John, 1714–79, American astronomer, mathematician, and physicist.

5. Robert Charles, 1809–94, U.S. politician: Speaker of the House 1847–49.

6. a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.

7. a male given name.

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Winthrop British  

/ ˈwɪnˌθrɒp /

noun

1. John. 1588–1649, English lawyer and colonist, first governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony: the leading figure among the Puritan settlers of New England

2. his son, John. 1606–76, English lawyer and colonist; a founder of Agawan (now Ipswich), Massachusetts; governor of Connecticut

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Example Sentences

A recent Brookings Institute report, though, showed the opposite: that kids who use a lot of AI “are not thinking for themselves,” as Rebecca Winthrop, one of the study’s authors, told NPR.

From Salon • Mar. 30, 2026

Winthrop and his cohort began the large-scale white settlement of New England.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

Winthrop Rodgers, from the international affairs think tank Chatham House, said it would take "a major democratic transition by Turkey" to accommodate demands from Kurdish political parties.

From BBC • May 12, 2025

Chapin — with lawyer and future colonial governor John Winthrop, savvy business entrepreneur William Pynchon and other British-born Puritans — left England in the 1620s as part of the Great Migration.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2025

Miss Winthrop and I waited at the bus stop together.

From "The Lions of Little Rock" by Kristin Levine