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noun
- One of the landowning Dutch grandees of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, especially after it became a British possession, renamed as New York.
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| Pilgrim |
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proper noun (Pilgrims)
- A settler of the w:Plymouth Colony, Plymouth Colony. Usually used in plural.
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proper noun
- A Utah state holiday celebrating the arrival of Mormon pioneers in what would become Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1847.
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| Plymouth Rock |
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proper noun
- The traditionally accepted landing site of the Mayflower settlers to America in 1620.
- http://www.pilgrimhall.org/Rock.htm - 13k -
- A breed of poultry.
- "The Plymouth Rock was a popular old fashioned utility bird. Its a gorgeous looking bird - proud and beautifully feathered. It should lay a large brown egg and and plenty of them - at least 200 a year and ideally 285."
http://www.plymouthrock.co.uk/ barredr.jpg
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adjective
- Relating to property or ownership.
- the rights
- Of or relating to the quality of being an owner.
- the class
- Manufactured exclusively by the owner of intellectual property rights (IPR), as with a patent or trade secret.
- The continuous profitability of the company is based on its many products.
- Privately owned.
- a lake
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noun
- A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
- (Roman Catholic Church): A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order.
- A country bumpkin.
adjective
- Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
- Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
- "Provincial airs and graces." Macaulay.
- Not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.
- Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod. Ayliffe.
- (obsolete) Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.
- "With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes." -Shak.
- limited in outlook; narrow
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