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say it: pen-suhl-VAY-nyuh
pennsylvania is a noun meaning "a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies". It is pronounced /ˌpɛnsəlˈveɪnjə/ — pen-suhl-VAY-nyuh. It carries 3 recorded senses.
a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
one of the British colonies that formed the United States
a university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pennsylvania come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.