BROOKLYN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Brooklyn mean? 

• BROOKLYN (noun)
  The noun BROOKLYN has 1 sense:

1. a borough of New York City

  Familiarity information: BROOKLYN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BROOKLYN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A borough of New York City

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

borough (one of the administrative divisions of a large city)

Meronyms (parts of "Brooklyn"):

Coney Island (a section of Brooklyn on the Atlantic; known as an amusement center)

Holonyms ("Brooklyn" is a part of...):

Greater New York; New York; New York City (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)

 Context examples 

We had taken and furnished a little house in Brooklyn, and our whole future seemed assured when that black cloud appeared which was soon to overspread our sky.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)