Pennsylvania

Meaning

Proper Noun

• state USA (country) ; largest city: Philadelphia.
• The first, and historically largest, now defunct US railroad, a hallmark of the industrial age.
• (unincorporated) community Mobile County (county) Alabama (state) USA (country).
• suburb city, Exeter Devon (county) England (constituent country) .
• hamlet Cold Ashton (parish) uauth, South Gloucestershire Gloucestershire (county) England (constituent country) .

Related

Similar words

• PA

Origin

• Penn + sylvan.
• On March 4, 1681, Charles II of England granted a land tract to William Penn for the area that now includes Pennsylvania. Penn then founded a colony there as a place of religious freedom for Quakers, and named it for the Latin sylva, silva, thus "Pennsylvania" (Penn's woods).