Plimouth

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A place name referring to Plymouth, the historic English port city or the Massachusetts town linked to the Pilgrims
2. The name of Plymouth, a coastal city in southwest England or a historic town in Massachusetts founded by early settlers
3. A proper noun naming Plymouth, either the old maritime city in Devon or the colonial settlement in New England

Etymology: Plymouth takes its name from the River Plym, which reaches the sea at the city's harbour in south-west England. The first element, "plym", is probably of Celtic origin, though its exact meaning is uncertain. The second element, "mouth", is plain English, so the name means roughly "mouth of the Plym." The American town shares the name because of the Pilgrims' last stop in England. Their ship had put in at Plymouth, England, to repair a leaking companion vessel, and they sailed from there on their Atlantic crossing. When they founded their settlement on the New England coast, they named it after that final English port, the last place they had known before leaving Europe.