noun
1. a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies (Freq. 1)
• Syn: ↑Old Line State, ↑Free State, ↑MD
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑American state
• Part Holonyms:
↑United States, ↑United States of America, ↑America, ↑the States, ↑US, ↑U.S., ↑USA, ↑U.S.A., ↑Mid-Atlantic states, ↑South
• Part Meronyms:
↑Aberdeen, ↑Annapolis, ↑capital of Maryland, ↑Baltimore, ↑Fort Meade, ↑Fort George Gordon Meade, ↑Fort George G. Meade, ↑Frederick, ↑Hagerstown, ↑Chesapeake Bay, ↑Potomac, ↑Potomac River, ↑Susquehanna, ↑Susquehanna River
2. one of the British colonies that formed the United States
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑Colony
Useful english dictionary. 2012.