- New York
- noun1. the largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center (Freq. 46)• Syn: ↑New York City, ↑Greater New York• Instance Hypernyms: ↑city, ↑metropolis, ↑urban center, ↑port of entry, ↑point of entry• Part Holonyms: ↑New York State, ↑Empire State, ↑NY• Part Meronyms:↑Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, ↑Brooklyn Bridge, ↑Columbia University, ↑Columbia, ↑Cooper Union, ↑Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, ↑Empire State Building, ↑George Washington Bridge, ↑Queensboro Bridge, ↑Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, ↑World Trade Center, ↑WTC, ↑twin towers, ↑ground zero, ↑Manhattan Island, ↑New Amsterdam, ↑Bronx, ↑Brooklyn, ↑Manhattan, ↑Greenwich Village, ↑Village, ↑Queens, ↑Staten Island, ↑East River, ↑Harlem River, ↑Verrazano Narrows, ↑New York Bay2. a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies (Freq. 16)• Syn: ↑New York State, ↑Empire State, ↑NY• Members of this Region: ↑Saratoga, ↑battle of Saratoga• Instance Hypernyms: ↑American state• Part Holonyms:↑United States, ↑United States of America, ↑America, ↑the States, ↑US, ↑U.S., ↑USA, ↑U.S.A., ↑Mid-Atlantic states• Part Meronyms:↑Cornell University, ↑Tappan Zee Bridge, ↑Liberty Island, ↑Bedloe's Island, ↑New Netherland, ↑Albany, ↑capital of New York, ↑Buffalo, ↑Cooperstown, ↑Erie Canal, ↑New York City, ↑Greater New York, ↑Ithaca, ↑West Point, ↑Long Island, ↑Binghamton, ↑Kingston, ↑Newburgh, ↑Niagara Falls, ↑Rochester, ↑Schenectady, ↑Syracuse, ↑Utica, ↑Saratoga Springs, ↑Watertown, ↑Adirondacks, ↑Adirondack Mountains, ↑Allegheny, ↑Allegheny River, ↑American Falls, ↑Catskills, ↑Catskill Mountains, ↑Delaware, ↑Delaware River, ↑Hudson, ↑Hudson River, ↑Lake Champlain, ↑Champlain, ↑Mohawk River, ↑Niagara, ↑Susquehanna, ↑Susquehanna River, ↑Taconic Mountains3. one of the British colonies that formed the United States• Members of this Region: ↑Fort Ticonderoga, ↑Ticonderoga• Instance Hypernyms: ↑Colony
Useful english dictionary. 2012.