MANHATTAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Manhattan mean? 

• MANHATTAN (noun)
  The noun MANHATTAN has 2 senses:

1. one of the five boroughs of New York City

2. a cocktail made with whiskey and sweet vermouth with a dash of bitters

  Familiarity information: MANHATTAN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANHATTAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the five boroughs of New York City

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

borough (one of the administrative divisions of a large city)

Meronyms (parts of "Manhattan"):

Wall St.; Wall Street (a street in lower Manhattan where the New York Stock Exchange is located; symbol of American finance)

Times Square (the area of Manhattan around the intersection of Broadway and Seventh Avenue; heart of the New York theater district; site of annual celebration of New Year's)

off-Broadway (low-budget theaters located outside the Broadway area in Manhattan)

Park Ave.; Park Avenue (a fashionable residential street in New York City)

Broadway; Great White Way (a street in Manhattan that passes through Times Square; famous for its theaters)

Bowery (a street in Manhattan noted for cheap hotels frequented by homeless derelicts)

SoHo; South of Houston (a district in southwestern Manhattan noted for its shops and restaurants and galleries and artist's lofts)

Hell's Half Acre; Hell's Kitchen (a district in Manhattan formerly noted for its slums and vice)

Harlem (a district of Manhattan; now largely a Black ghetto)

Central Park (a large park in Manhattan)

Seventh Avenue (an avenue in Manhattan that runs north and south)

Fifth Avenue (an avenue in Manhattan that separates the east side of Manhattan from the west side)

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

Greater New York; New York; New York City (the largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A cocktail made with whiskey and sweet vermouth with a dash of bitters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

cocktail (a short mixed drink)

Meronyms (substance of "manhattan"):

whiskey; whisky (a liquor made from fermented mash of grain)

Italian vermouth; sweet vermouth (sweet dark amber variety)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "manhattan"):

Rob Roy (a manhattan cocktail made with Scotch whiskey)

 Context examples 

She replied, “Jupiter doesn’t work in Manhattan! There are too few apartments available.”

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A gigantic cavity - two-thirds the area of Manhattan and almost 1,000 feet (300 meters) tall - growing at the bottom of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica is one of several disturbing discoveries reported in a new NASA-led study of the disintegrating glacier.

(Huge Cavity in Antarctic Glacier Signals Rapid Decay, NASA)

It was a beautiful apartment, sunny with a huge view of lower Manhattan.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)