old colony

1. 1.

   a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies

   SynonymsMassachusettsBay StateMAMass.

   BroaderAmerican state

   Part ofUnited StatesNew England

   PartsBostonCambridgeConcordGloucesterLexingtonMedford

Questions about old colony

What does old colony mean?

old colony means "a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies".

What is another word for old colony?

Close synonyms include Massachusetts, Bay State, MA, Mass.. 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 old colony a common word?

old 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.