GRANITE STATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Granite State mean? 

• GRANITE STATE (noun)
  The noun GRANITE STATE has 1 sense:

1. a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies

  Familiarity information: GRANITE STATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRANITE STATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Granite State; N.H.; New Hampshire; NH

Instance hypernyms:

American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "Granite State"):

Dartmouth; Dartmouth College (a college in New Hampshire)

capital of New Hampshire; Concord (capital of the state of New Hampshire; located in south central New Hampshire on the Merrimack river)

Manchester (largest city in New Hampshire; located in southeastern New Hampshire on the Merrimack river)

Portsmouth (a port town in southeastern New Hampshire on the Atlantic Ocean)

Merrimack; Merrimack River (a river that rises in south central New Hampshire and flows through Concord and Manchester into Massachusetts and empties into the Atlantic Ocean)

Holonyms ("Granite State" is a part of...):

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

New England (a region of northeastern United States comprising Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont and Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Connecticut)