New England
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Etymology
[edit]The name of the American region was coined by English explorer John Smith in 1616.
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
[edit]- Collectively, six states of the United States, namely Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.
- 1616, John Smith, A Description of New England, London: Humfrey Lownes, →OCLC, pages 3, 7:
- [page 3] New England is that part of America in the Ocean Sea opposite to Noua Albyon in the South Sea; discouered by the most memorable Sir Francis Drake in his voyage about the worlde. In regarde whereto this is stiled New England, beeing in the same latitude. New France, off it, is Northward: Southwardes is Virginia, and all the adioyning Continent, with New Granado, New Spain, New Andolosia and the West Indies.
[page 7] That part wee call New England is betwixt the degrees of 41. and 45: but that parte this discourse speaketh of, stretcheth but from Pennobscot to Cape Cod, some 75 leagues by a right line distant each from other […]
- Other places in the United States:
- A census-designated place in Dade County, Georgia.
- A minor city in Hettinger County, North Dakota.
- An unincorporated community in Rome Township, Athens County, Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in Wood County, West Virginia.
- A suburb of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TF1801).
- A settlement in Croft parish, East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England, next to Wainfleet All Saints (OS grid ref TF5059).
- A loosely defined region in the north of New South Wales, Australia.
- An electoral division in New South Wales, Australia
Derived terms
[edit]- New England aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae)
- New England cottontail (Sylvilagus transitionalis)
- New Englander and New Englandress
- New Englandism
- New Englandly or New Englandy
Translations
[edit]six states of the United States
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