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AMERICAN FALLS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does American Falls mean?
• AMERICAN FALLS (noun)
The noun AMERICAN FALLS has 1 sense:
1. a part of Niagara Falls in western New York (north of Buffalo)
Familiarity information: AMERICAN FALLS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A part of Niagara Falls in western New York (north of Buffalo)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
falls; waterfall (a steep descent of the water of a river)
Holonyms ("American Falls" is a part of...):
Empire State; N.Y.; New York; New York State; NY (a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies)
Niagara; Niagara Falls (waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls; in the United States it is the American Falls)
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