Meaning

1 senses

  1. Any of several plants that flower in May - especially the hawthorn (in Britain) and the trailing arbutus (in the US).

    ма́йский цвето́кmájskij cvetók

More definitions
  • the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from England to Massachusetts in 1620
  • low-growing evergreen shrub of eastern North America with leathery leaves and clusters of fragrant pink or white flowers

Examples

5 sentences

  1. They named the ship the Mayflower.

    ruОни назвали судно "Мэйфлауэр".

    deSie nannten das Schiff "Mayflower".

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  2. Tom and Mary were on board the Mayflower.

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  3. We made wreaths of the Mayflowers and put them on our hats.

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  4. I'm so sorry for people who live in lands where there are no Mayflowers.

    deMenschen, die in Ländern ohne Butterblumen leben, tun mir ja so leid!

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  5. Puritanism brought over with it in the Mayflower the anti-Christmas feeling to New England.

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Translations

3 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
plant that flowers in May — see also hawthorn, trailing arbutus:

Origin

From May + flower.

From May + flower.

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Forms

plural: mayflowers
Singularmayflower
Pluralmayflowers

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
mayweed
Close in meaning
  • low-growing evergreen shrub of eastern North America with leathery leaves and clusters of fragrant pink or white flowers:trailing arbutusEpigaea repens

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
mayamaybeA1mayhemmayomayonnaise
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