JERSEY CITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Jersey City mean? 

• JERSEY CITY (noun)
  The noun JERSEY CITY has 1 sense:

1. a city in northeastern New Jersey (opposite Manhattan)

  Familiarity information: JERSEY CITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JERSEY CITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in northeastern New Jersey (opposite Manhattan)

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)

Holonyms ("Jersey City" is a part of...):

Garden State; Jersey; N.J.; New Jersey; NJ (a Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic; one of the original 13 colonies)

 Context examples 

I even had a short affair with a girl who lived in Jersey City and worked in the accounting department, but her brother began throwing mean looks in my direction so when she went on her vacation in July I let it blow quietly away.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)