Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of southeast Massachusetts on Buzzards Bay east-southeast of Providence, Rhode Island. Settled in the mid-1600s, it was a major whaling port in the first half of the 1800s.
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- proper noun A city in
Massachusetts ,United States
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Examples
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A section with cobblestoned streets is known as the New Bedford Whaling National Historic Park.
Scallops Ride to Rescue Jennifer Levitz 2011
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A section with cobblestoned streets is known as the New Bedford Whaling National Historic Park.
Scallops Ride to Rescue Jennifer Levitz 2011
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Captain Wattles, on whom the name New Bedford seemed to have made some impression, pointed up at the coachman's box with a growl, in which command mingled strangely with menace.
Agatha Webb Anna Katharine Green 1890
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It happened last night, late, in New Bedford, which is just outside of Boston.
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STEVE COOPER, WHDH REPORTER (on camera): Massachusetts State Police this morning investigating what appears to be a hate crime here in New Bedford, which is south of Boston.
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For further information, please call the New Bedford Preservation Society office (388 County Street, New Bedford) at 508/997-6425 or visit www. nbpreservationsociety.org.
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She would call a New Bedford shelter home for the next three months.
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For New Bedford, that is a $2.8 million cut for the next five months and up to $8.2 million for next year, depending on state revenues.
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Summer collegiate baseball truly called New Bedford home for the first time this summer, and while the New England Collegiate Baseball League's Bay Sox have a long way to go, just their being here was enough for 2009.
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City man pleads guilty, sentenced to 2½ years for fatal hit-and-run Body identified as New Bedford woman
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