noun
1. a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies (Freq. 12)
• Syn: ↑Keystone State, ↑PA
• Members of this Region: ↑Gettysburg, ↑Battle of Gettysburg
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑American state
• Part Holonyms:
↑United States, ↑United States of America, ↑America, ↑the States, ↑US, ↑U.S., ↑USA, ↑U.S.A., ↑Mid-Atlantic states
• Part Meronyms:
↑University of Pennsylvania, ↑Penn, ↑Allentown, ↑Altoona, ↑Bethlehem, ↑Erie, ↑Gettysburg, ↑Harrisburg, ↑capital of Pennsylvania, ↑Chester, ↑Philadelphia, ↑City of Brotherly Love, ↑Pittsburgh, ↑Alleghenies, ↑Allegheny Mountains, ↑Allegheny, ↑Allegheny River, ↑Blue Ridge Mountains, ↑Blue Ridge, ↑Lehigh River, ↑Monongahela, ↑Monongahela River, ↑Susquehanna, ↑Susquehanna River
2. one of the British colonies that formed the United States
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑Colony
3. a university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Syn: ↑University of Pennsylvania, ↑Penn
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑university
• Member Holonyms: ↑Ivy League
• Part Holonyms: ↑Keystone State, ↑PA
Useful english dictionary. 2012.