maryland

Noun
  1. A Mid-Atlantic state;
    One of the original 13 colonies (synset 109116186)
    is an instance of: american state - one of the 50 states of the United States
    has:
    • 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
    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
    same as: free state, md, md., old line state
  2. One of the British colonies that formed the United States (synset 109116564)
    is an instance of: colony - one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States

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