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keystone state
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun keystone state has 1 sense
- keystone state(n = noun.location) pa, pennsylvania - a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies; Array has parts: penn, pennsylvania, university of pennsylvania, allentown, altoona, bethlehem, erie, gettysburg, capital of pennsylvania, harrisburg, chester, city of brotherly love, philadelphia, pittsburgh, alleghenies, allegheny mountains, allegheny, allegheny river, blue ridge, blue ridge mountains, lehigh river, monongahela, monongahela river, susquehanna, susquehanna river
is a kind of american state
is a part of america, the states, u.s., u.s.a., united states, united states of america, us, usa, mid-atlantic states
CIDE DICTIONARY
keystone state,
Pennsylvania; -- a nickname alluding to its having been the central one of the 13 original United States, at the time of formation of the Constitution. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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