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New England

noun

  1. an area in the NE United States, including the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.


New England

noun

  1. the NE part of the US, consisting of the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut: settled originally chiefly by Puritans in the mid-17th century
  2. a region in SE Australia, in the northern tablelands of New South Wales


New England

  1. Region in the northeastern United States that includes Connecticut , Maine , Massachusetts , New Hampshire , Rhode Island , and Vermont .


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Notes

The region is thought to have been named by Captain John Smith for its resemblance to the English coast.

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Other Words From

  • New England·er noun
  • New England·ish adjective

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Example Sentences

Once I began reading, I realized A Gronking to Remember was a masturbatory tribute to the New England Patriots.

The trials produced positive results, published in The New England Journal of Medicine in November.

Imagine with me for a moment that the states of New England left the United States of America.

Moss started the blog in 2007, having moved to New York from a small, working-class New England town “around 20 years” ago.

The impeachment issue is driving campaign narratives even in the relatively liberal precincts of New England.

Nicknames among this class of poor whites in the South seem singularly like those in vogue in New England.

He was not many years removed from the sound of a preaching of the straitest New England Calvinism.

Another party are instigated by Episcopalian prejudices against New England.

It was a fine estate, with a very grand house for the New England town by the sea in which it was situated.

You will find just as much haggling over a five-cent piece here as in any small New England town.

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