pennsylvania

Noun
  1. A Mid-Atlantic state;
    One of the original 13 colonies (synset 109157081)
    domain member region: battle of gettysburg, gettysburg - a battle of the American Civil War (1863); the defeat of Robert E. Lee's invading Confederate Army was a major victory for the Union
    is an instance of: american state - one of the 50 states of the United States
    has:
    • penn, pennsylvania, university of pennsylvania - a university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    • allentown - a city in eastern Pennsylvania; an industrial and commercial center
    • altoona - a town in central Pennsylvania
    • bethlehem - a town in eastern Pennsylvania on the Lehigh River to the northwest of Philadelphia; an important center for steel production
    • erie - a port city on Lake Erie in northwestern Pennsylvania
    • gettysburg - a small town in southern Pennsylvania; site of a national cemetery
    • capital of pennsylvania, harrisburg - capital of Pennsylvania; located in southern part of state
    • chester - a city of southeastern Pennsylvania on the Delaware river (an industrial suburb of Philadelphia)
    • city of brotherly love, philadelphia - the largest city in Pennsylvania; located in the southeastern part of the state on the Delaware river; site of Independence Hall where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed; site of the University of Pennsylvania
    • pittsburgh - a city in southwestern Pennsylvania where the confluence of the Allegheny River and Monongahela River forms the Ohio River; long an important urban industrial area; site of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh
    • alleghenies, allegheny mountains - the western part of the Appalachian Mountains; extending from northern Pennsylvania to southwestern Virginia
    • allegheny, allegheny river - a river that rises in Pennsylvania and flows north into New York and then back south through Pennsylvania again to join the Monongahela River at Pittsburgh which is the beginning of the Ohio River
    • blue ridge, blue ridge mountains - a range of the Appalachians extending from southern Pennsylvania to northern Georgia
    • lehigh river - a river in eastern Pennsylvania that flows southeast into the Delaware River
    • monongahela, monongahela river - a river that rises in northern West Virginia and flows north into Pennsylvania where it joins the Allegheny River at Pittsburgh to form the Ohio River
    • 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:
    same as: keystone state, pa, pa.
  2. One of the British colonies that formed the United States (synset 109157583)
    is an instance of: colony - one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
  3. A university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (synset 104519771)
    is an instance of: university - establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching
    belongs to: ivy league - a league of universities and colleges in the northeastern United States that have a reputation for scholastic achievement and social prestige
    is a part of: keystone state, pa, pa., pennsylvania - a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
    same as: penn, university of pennsylvania

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