LONG ISLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Long Island mean? 

• LONG ISLAND (noun)
  The noun LONG ISLAND has 1 sense:

1. an island in southeastern New York; Brooklyn and Queens are on its western end

  Familiarity information: LONG ISLAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LONG ISLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An island in southeastern New York; Brooklyn and Queens are on its western end

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

Meronyms (parts of "Long Island"):

Elmont (a town on Long Island in New York; site of Belmont Park)

Kennedy; Kennedy International; Kennedy International Airport (a large airport on Long Island to the east of New York City)

Long Island Sound (a sound between Long Island and Connecticut)

Holonyms ("Long Island" is a part of...):

Empire State; N.Y.; New York; New York State; NY (a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies)

 Context examples 

“The hero of the Long Island cave mystery?” said Holmes.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I'd like to do more work on Long Island if I could get the entry. All I ask is that they should give me a start.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

"I've done some nice things out on Long Island," asserted Mr. McKee.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with grey turning, gold turning light.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

It was seven o'clock when we got into the coupé with him and started for Long Island.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

But young men didn't—at least in my provincial inexperience I believed they didn't—drift coolly out of nowhere and buy a palace on Long Island Sound.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

"Do you live down on Long Island, too?" she inquired.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

They got into automobiles which bore them out to Long Island and somehow they ended up at Gatsby's door.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

His name was Jay Gatsby and I didn't lay eyes on him again for over four years—even after I'd met him on Long Island I didn't realize it was the same man.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)