PLYMOUTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Plymouth mean? 

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

1. a town in Massachusetts founded by Pilgrims in 1620

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLYMOUTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A town in Massachusetts founded by Pilgrims in 1620

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Meronyms (parts of "Plymouth"):

Plymouth Colony (colony formed by the Pilgrims when they arrived at Plymouth Rock in 1620; it was absorbed into the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1691)

Plymouth Rock (a boulder in Plymouth supposed to be where the Pilgrims disembarked from the Mayflower)

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

Bay State; MA; Mass.; Massachusetts; Old Colony (a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies)

 Context examples 

“My dear Master Copperfield,” she replied, “we went to Plymouth.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Surely I met you in Plymouth at a garden-party some little time ago, Mrs. Straker?” said Holmes.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I thought no more of the matter until the vicar’s telegram reached me at Plymouth.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He looked rather distressed as he added, that he had been staying with some friends near Plymouth.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Instead of staying at Lyme, he went off to Plymouth, and then he went off to see Edward.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Did ever a vessel come out of Toulon as my 38-gun frigate did from Plymouth last year, with her masts rolling about until her shrouds were like iron bars on one side and hanging in festoons upon the other?

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I thought you were at Plymouth, ma'am,” I said to Mrs. Micawber, as he went out.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“From the Plymouth hotel, Watson,” he said.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She observed in a low voice, to her mother, that they were probably going down to Mr. Pratt's, near Plymouth.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

My feelings, you see, did not prevent my taking Mrs Harville and all her family to Plymouth.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)