massachusetts bay colony

1. 1.

   one of the British colonies that formed the United States

   SynonymsMassachusetts

   BroaderColony

Questions about massachusetts bay colony

What does massachusetts bay colony mean?

massachusetts bay colony means "one of the British colonies that formed the United States".

What is another word for massachusetts bay colony?

Close synonyms include Massachusetts. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is massachusetts bay colony a common word?

massachusetts bay colony is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.