MAINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Maine mean? 

• MAINE (noun)
  The noun MAINE has 1 sense:

1. a state in New England

  Familiarity information: MAINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state in New England

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Maine; ME; Me.; Pine Tree State

Instance hypernyms:

American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "Maine"):

Acadia National Park (a national park in Maine showing marine erosion and glaciation; includes seashore and also the highest point on the Atlantic coast)

Augusta; capital of Maine (the capital of the state of Maine)

Bangor (a town in east central Maine on the Penobscot River)

Brunswick (a university town in southwestern Maine)

Lewiston (a town in southwestern Maine to the north of Portland)

Orono (a university town in east central Maine on the Penobscot River to the north of Bangor)

Portland (largest city in Maine in the southwestern corner of the state)

Penobscot; Penobscot River (a river in central Maine flowing into Penobscot Bay)

Saint John; Saint John River; St. John; St. John River (a river that rises in Maine and flows northeastward through New Brunswick to empty into the Bay of Fundy)

Holonyms ("Maine" is a part of...):

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

New England (a region of northeastern United States comprising Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont and Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Connecticut)

Derivation:

Mainer (a native or resident of Maine)

 Context examples 

A census region of the United States consisting of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

(Northeastern United States Census Region, NCI Thesaurus)

A census division of the United States consisting of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.

(New England Census Division, NCI Thesaurus)

For example, microbes that flourish on granite gravestones in Maine are more like those growing on granite gravestones in Belgium than they are to those on limestone tombstones just feet away.

(Tales from the crypt: Life after death in a graveyard, National Science Foundation)

This project uses a 'big data' approach to reading a large, randomized sample of genomes from the global microbiome, which we then explore to answer many types of questions, said Ramunas Stepanauskas, a senior research scientist at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in Maine and the senior author of the paper.

(Study analyzing cells' blueprints reveals new patterns in the global distribution and diversity of ocean microbes, National Science Foundation)

From East Egg, then, came the Chester Beckers and the Leeches and a man named Bunsen whom I knew at Yale and Doctor Webster Civet who was drowned last summer up in Maine.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)