RHODE ISLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Rhode Island mean? 

• RHODE ISLAND (noun)
  The noun RHODE ISLAND has 2 senses:

1. a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies; the smallest state

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

  Familiarity information: RHODE ISLAND used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RHODE ISLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies; the smallest state

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Little Rhody; Ocean State; R.I.; Rhode Island; RI

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Rhode Island"):

Brown; Brown University (a university in Rhode Island)

capital of Rhode Island; Providence (the capital and largest city of Rhode Island; located in northeastern Rhode Island on Narragansett Bay; site of Brown University)

Newport (a resort city in southeastern Rhode Island; known for the summer homes of millionaires; important yachting center)

Narragansett Bay (a deep inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in Rhode Island)

Domain member region:

Shawnee cake (form of johnnycake)

Holonyms ("Rhode Island" 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)

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 tower starts at the planet's surface as an area of rapidly lifted dust about as wide as the state of Rhode Island.

(Global Storms on Mars Launch Dust Towers Into the Sky, NASA)

The research was conducted by the Brown University Superfund Research Center, Providence, Rhode Island.

(Graphene shield shows promise in blocking mosquito bites, National Institutes of Health)

A team led by Dr. Rena Wing of Brown University and Miriam Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, examined the effectiveness of interventions to prevent or reduce weight gain in young adults.

(Strategies successfully reduce weight gain in young adults, NIH)

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

(New England Census Division, NCI Thesaurus)

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)