Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun plymouth_colony

1 sense of plymouth colony

Sense 1
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)
       INSTANCE OF=> colony, settlement -- (a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government; "the American colony in Paris")