a state of the eastern US, on the Atlantic coast, surrounding Chesapeake Bay; population 5,633,597 (est. 2008); capital, Annapolis. Colonized from England in the 17th century, it was one of the original thirteen states of the Union (1788).
Derivatives
Marylander
noun
Origin:
named after Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I
Maryland in other Oxford dictionaries
Definition of Maryland in the US English dictionary
