ERIE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Erie mean? 

• ERIE (noun)
  The noun ERIE has 3 senses:

1. a member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York

2. the 4th largest of the Great Lakes; it is linked to the Hudson River by the New York State Barge Canal

3. a port city on Lake Erie in northwestern Pennsylvania

  Familiarity information: ERIE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ERIE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Erie" is a kind of...):

Iroquois (any member of the warlike North American Indian peoples formerly living in New York State; the Iroquois League were allies of the British during the American Revolution)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The 4th largest of the Great Lakes; it is linked to the Hudson River by the New York State Barge Canal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Erie; Lake Erie

Instance hypernyms:

lake (a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land)

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

Great Lakes (a group of five large, interconnected lakes in central North America)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A port city on Lake Erie in northwestern Pennsylvania

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

point of entry; port of entry (a port in the United States where customs officials are stationed to oversee the entry and exit of people and merchandise)

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

Keystone State; PA; Pa.; Pennsylvania (a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies)

 Context examples 

Vitamin D can't be metabolized without sufficient magnesium levels, meaning Vitamin D remains stored and inactiv, according a new study at the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine.

(Low Magnesium Levels Make Vitamin D Ineffective, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Antarctica's bedrock is laced with rivers and lakes, the largest of which is the size of Lake Erie.

(Hot News from the Antarctic Underground, NASA)

Lake Erie experiences harmful algal blooms every year.

(Research reveals harmful algal blooms' daily cycles, National Science Foundation)

Using DNA samples collected over 48 hours following a 2014 toxic bloom in Lake Erie that left Toledo-area residents drinking bottled water, the scientists looked at what genes were active at different times of the day or night.

(Research reveals harmful algal blooms' daily cycles, National Science Foundation)