MARYLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Maryland mean? 

• MARYLAND (noun)
  The noun MARYLAND has 2 senses:

1. a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies

2. one of the British colonies that formed the United States

  Familiarity information: MARYLAND used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARYLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Free State; Maryland; MD; Md.; Old Line State

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Maryland"):

Aberdeen (a town in northeastern Maryland)

Annapolis; capital of Maryland (state capital of Maryland; site of the United States Naval Academy)

Baltimore (the largest city in Maryland; a major seaport and industrial center)

Fort George G. Meade; Fort George Gordon Meade; Fort Meade (a United States Army base in Maryland; headquarters of the National Security Agency)

Frederick (a town in northern Maryland to the west of Baltimore)

Hagerstown (a town in northern Maryland)

Chesapeake Bay (a large inlet of the North Atlantic between Virginia and Maryland; fed by Susquehanna River)

Potomac; Potomac River (a river in the east central United States; rises in West Virginia in the Appalachian Mountains and flows eastward, forming the boundary between Maryland and Virginia, to the Chesapeake Bay)

Susquehanna; Susquehanna River (a river in the northeastern United States that rises in New York and flows southward through Pennsylvania and Maryland into Chesapeake Bay)

Holonyms ("Maryland" 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)

Mid-Atlantic states (a region of the eastern United States comprising New York and New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Delaware and Maryland)

South (the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line)

Sense 2

Meaning:

One of the British colonies that formed the United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

Colony (one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States)

 Context examples 

A new study at the Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine (VCOM) and the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech has found a connection between common household chemicals and birth defects.

(Common Household Chemicals Lead to Birth Defects in Mice, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

"We are not supposed to be seeing this at all," said Qing Liang, an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author of the study.

(Ozone-depleting compound persists, NASA)

Nitrogen oxides are one set of several gases that contribute to recycling OH back into the atmosphere, according to Julie Nicely at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

(Greenhouse Gas ‘Detergent’ Recycles Itself in Atmosphere, NASA)

"Planets have a bow shock the same way a supersonic jet does," said Vadim Uritsky at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

(Messenger spots giant space weather effects at Mercury, NASA)

The Sahara Desert has expanded by about 10 percent since 1920, according to a new study by National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded scientists at the University of Maryland (UMD).

(New study finds world’s largest desert, the Sahara, has grown by 10 percent since 1920, National Science Foundation)

The area in the United States comprised of a 68 square mile area northeast of the Potomac River donated by the state of Maryland.

(District of Columbia, NCI Thesaurus)

At NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, an analysis was conducted using NASA's Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) data generated during the period from January 17 to 25, 2018.

(France's Flooding Rains Examined by NASA’s IMERG, NASA)

Led by researchers at the University of Maryland's National-Socio Environmental Synthesis Center, the team found that the plague's effects, sometimes attributed to the fall of the Roman Empire, may have been exaggerated.

(Justinianic plague not a landmark pandemic?, National Science Foundation)

In trials undertaken in Burkina Faso, mosquito numbers were reduced by 99 per cent within 45 days, according to researchers from the University of Maryland (UMD) and the West African nation’s IRSS research institute.

(Genetically modified fungus hailed as malaria breakthrough, SciDev.Net)

Researchers from NASA and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, report that streams of meteoroids striking the Moon infuse the thin lunar atmosphere with a short-lived water vapor.

(Meteoroid Strikes Eject Precious Water From Moon, NASA)