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| Appalachia |
a region in the United States extending from southwestern Pennsylvania to northwestern Georgia and including the southern Appalachian Mountains. |
| Chester White |
a kind of large white hog first bred in Chester County, Pennsylvania. |
| Dutch |
pertaining to or characteristic of the Pennsylvania Dutch. [2/5 definitions] |
| Harrisburg |
the capital of Pennsylvania. |
| Ivy League |
an association of eight prestigious colleges and universities in the northeastern United States, including Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, and Yale. [1/2 definitions] |
| OH |
abbreviation of "Ohio," a Midwestern U.S. state between Pennsylvania and Indiana. |
| Ohio |
a Midwestern U.S. state between Pennsylvania and Indiana. (abbr.: OH) [2 definitions] |
| PA1 |
abbreviation of "Pennsylvania," an eastern U.S. state south of New York. |
| Pennsylvania Dutch |
the descendants of German and Swiss immigrants who settled in Pennsylvania in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. [1/3 definitions] |
| Pennsylvanian |
of or pertaining to Pennsylvania or its people. [2/4 definitions] |
| Philadelphia |
a city in southeastern Pennsylvania, the largest city in the state and one of the most populous in the U.S., important as a government center during the Revolutionary War and home to Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence and The U.S. Constitution were signed. |
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