bay state

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
Bay State
    n 1: a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies
         [syn: {Massachusetts}, {Bay State}, {Old Colony}, {MA}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Bay State \Bay State\
   Massachusetts, which had been called the Colony of
   Massachusetts Bay; -- a nickname.
   [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
    

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