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Penn

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Penn  (pn), William 1644-1718.
English Quaker colonizer in America. He founded the colony of Pennsylvania in 1681.
Penn, Sir William 1621-1670.
English admiral who led the English fleet during the Dutch War (1665-1667).
Penn [pɛn]
n
1. (Biographies / Penn, Irving (1917 M, US, ARTS AND CRAFTS: photographer) Irving. born 1917, US photographer, noted for his portraits and his innovations in colour photography
2. (Biographies / Penn, William (1644-1718) M, English, RELIGION: Quaker, POLITICS: statesman) William. 1644-1718, English Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania
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Noun1.PennPenn - Englishman and Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania (1644-1718)
William Penn
2.PennPenn - a university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania
Ivy League - a league of universities and colleges in the northeastern United States that have a reputation for scholastic achievement and social prestige
Keystone State, Pennsylvania, PA - a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies


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Both might have been influenced by early impressions; for, if the son of the loyal and gallant soldier bowed in implicit obedience to the will of his sovereign, the descendant of the persecuted followers of Penn looked back with a little bitterness to the unmerited wrongs that had been heaped upon his ancestors.
The Pioneers by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
* William Penn was termed Minquon by the Delawares, and, as he never used violence or injustice in his dealings with them, his reputation for probity passed into a proverb.
The Last of The Mohicans by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
Our affections as citizens embrace the whole extent of the Union, and the names of Raleigh, Smith, Winthrop, Calvert, Penn and Oglethorpe excite in our minds recollections equally pleasing and gratitude equally fervent with those of Carver and Bradford.
John Quincy Adams,"Orations" by Adams, John Quincy View in context
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