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MID-ATLANTIC STATES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mid-Atlantic states mean? 

MID-ATLANTIC STATES (noun)
  The noun MID-ATLANTIC STATES has 1 sense:

1. a region of the eastern United States comprising New York and New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Delaware and Marylandplay

  Familiarity information: MID-ATLANTIC STATES used as a noun is very rare.


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MID-ATLANTIC STATES (noun)


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Meaning:

A region of the eastern United States comprising New York and New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Delaware and Maryland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Meronyms (parts of "Mid-Atlantic states"):

DE; Del.; Delaware; Diamond State; First State; Free State; Maryland; MD; Md.; Old Line State (a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies)

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

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

Holonyms ("Mid-Atlantic states" 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)


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