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单词 thirteen colonies
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(the) thirteen colonies
(b) The (former) British settlements and their territories in North America, esp. the thirteen that ratified the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and thereby became founding states of the US (also more fully (the) thirteen colonies). Now historical.The Thirteen Colonies were: Province of New Hampshire, Province of Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut Colony, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Province of New York, Province of New Jersey, Province of Pennsylvania, Delaware Colony, Province of Maryland, Colony of Virginia, Province of North Carolina, Province of South Carolina, and Province of Georgia.
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1650 E. Williams Virgo Triumphans To Parl. sig. B3v The apparent danger all the Colonies may be in if this be not possessed by the English, to prevent the Spaniard, who already hath seated himself on the North of Florida, and on the back of Virginia.
1747 W. Douglass Summary State Brit. Settlements N.-Amer. I. iv. 217 In the Colonies their Revenue-Acts are generally annual.
1780 C. Polhill Refl. Short Hist. Opposition 19 Our Frigates are decaying, and our veteran Troops mouldering away, in a fruitless and unprogressive War against the Colonies.
1857 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. I. vii. 423 Violent measures, by which the King hoped to curb the colonies.
1882 E. A. Freeman Lect. Amer. Audiences ii. iv. 320 The word provincial was, with a near approach to accuracy, often applied to your Thirteen Colonies, while they were still dependencies of Great Britain.
1948 Catholic Hist. Rev. 34 373 The American reader will appreciate the book more when he realizes that the British postal system was that of the colonies before independence.
1972 J. L. Dillard Black Eng. iii. 74 Wolof..seems to have a special lingua franca status among West African languages, in the thirteen colonies.
2000 A. Mason in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 129/2 Congregationalism was the leading church of New England, the legal establishment in some of the colonies.
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