noun
1. a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies; the smallest state (Freq. 9)
• Syn: ↑Little Rhody, ↑Ocean State, ↑RI
• Members of this Region: ↑Shawnee cake
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑American state
• Part Holonyms:
↑United States, ↑United States of America, ↑America, ↑the States, ↑US, ↑U.S., ↑USA, ↑U.S.A., ↑New England
• Part Meronyms: ↑Brown University, ↑Brown, ↑Providence, ↑capital of Rhode Island, ↑Newport, ↑Narragansett Bay
2. one of the British colonies that formed the United States
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑Colony
Useful english dictionary. 2012.