Pennsylvania

[ pen-suhl-veyn-yuh, -vey-nee-uh ]

noun

1. a state in the eastern United States. 45,333 sq. mi. (117,410 sq. km). : Harrisburg. : PA (for use with zip code), Pa., Penn., Penna.

Pennsylvania

/ ˌpɛnsɪlˈveɪnɪə /

noun

1. a state of the northeastern US: almost wholly in the Appalachians, with the Allegheny Plateau to the west and a plain in the southeast; the second most important US state for manufacturing. Capital: Harrisburg. Pop: 12 365 455 (2003 est). Area: 116 462 sq km (44 956 sq miles) AbbreviationPaPennPennawith zip codePA

Pennsylvania

1. State in the northeastern United States bordered by Lake Erie and New York to the north; New Jersey to the east; Delaware , Maryland , and West Virginia to the south; and Ohio to the west. Its capital is Harrisburg, and its largest city is Philadelphia .

Notes

Named after the father of William Penn , a devout Quaker , who was granted proprietary rights by the king of England to almost the whole of what is now Pennsylvania in the late seventeenth century.

One of the thirteen colonies .

Example Sentences

"Indigenous people were already caring for and managing forests and other kinds of tree foods," said Jacob Holland-Lulewicz at Pennsylvania State University, who studies archaeology and ethnohistory.

From Salon

The New York Times revealed that when Cher was an infant, out of desperation her mother abandoned her at a children's home in Scranton, Pennsylvania and skipped town.

From Salon

In a preprint published earlier this year, Pennsylvania State University data scientist Sarah Rajtmajer and her colleagues followed more than 7500 academics who used Mastodon from just after Musk acquired Twitter until 1 year later.

From Science Magazine

The son of Turkish parents, Oz graduated from Harvard before getting his medical degree and master’s of business at University of Pennsylvania.

From Los Angeles Times

But he has publicly endorsed products off air and his financial ties to health care companies were revealed in fillings made during his 2022 run for the US Senate in Pennsylvania.

From BBC