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Pensilvania

Pensilvania is the obsolete form of Pennsylvania.

Meaning of Pennsylvania

Proper noun

Pennsylvania

  1. A state of the United States. Capital: Harrisburg. Largest city: Philadelphia.
    • The vote was 54-46. The vote was mostly along party lines though Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania joined Republicans in supporting Bondi.2025 February 4, Shania Shelton and Morgan Rimmer, “Senate votes to confirm Pam Bondi as attorney general”, in CNN
    Synonyms:
    PA, The Keystone State
  2. (historical) A former colony of England, from 1681 to 1707, and of Great Britain, from 1707 to 1776, which grew progressively larger before becoming the present state.
  3. The first, and historically largest, now defunct US railroad, a hallmark of the industrial age.
  4. An unincorporated community in Mobile County, Alabama, United States.
  5. A suburb of Exeter, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX9294).
  6. A hamlet in Cold Ashton parish, South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST7473).

Questions about Pensilvania

What is Pensilvania the obsolete form of?
Pensilvania is the obsolete form of Pennsylvania.

Words near Pensilvania in the dictionary

  1. pensility
  2. pensill
  3. pensills
  4. pensils
  5. Pensilva
  6. Pensilvania
  7. pension
  8. pension book
  9. pension books
  10. pension fund
  11. pension funds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Pensilvania (page history and authors); Pennsylvania (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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