Annapolis

[uh-nap-uh-lis]

noun

a seaport in and the capital of Maryland, in the central part, on Chesapeake Bay: U.S. Naval Academy. 31,740.

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a state in the E United States, on the Atlantic coast. 4,216,446; 10,577 sq. mi. (27,395 sq. km). Capital: Annapolis. Abbreviation: MD (for use with zip code), Md.

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Mar·y·land·er, noun

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Annapolis (əˈnæpəlɪs)

—n
	the capital of Maryland, near the mouth of the Severn River on Chesapeake Bay: site of the US Naval Academy. Pop: 36 178 (2003 est)

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Annapolis [(uh-nap-uh-lis)]

Capital of Maryland.

Note: Location of the United States Naval Academy.

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"It is not generally remembered, if known, by the descendants of the Pilgrims, that when their forefathers were spending their first memorable winter in the New World, they had for neighbors a colony of French no further off than Port Royal (Annapolis, Nova Scotia) ... where, in spite of many vicissitudes, they had been for fifteen years.... Though these founders of Acadie endured no less than the Pilgrims, and about the same proportion of them ... died the first winter at St. Croix, 1604-1605, sixteen years earlier, no orator, to my knowledge, has ever celebrated their enterprise ... while the trials which their successors and descendants endured at the hands of the English have furnished a theme for both the historian and poet."

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