LONG ISLAND SOUND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Long Island Sound mean? 

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

1. a sound between Long Island and Connecticut

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LONG ISLAND SOUND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sound between Long Island and Connecticut

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

sound (a large ocean inlet or deep bay)

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

Connecticut; Constitution State; CT; Ct.; Nutmeg State (a New England state; one of the original 13 colonies)

Long Island (an island in southeastern New York; Brooklyn and Queens are on its western end)

Atlantic; Atlantic Ocean (the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east)

 Context examples 

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)

Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western Hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)