NEW AMSTERDAM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does New Amsterdam mean? 

• NEW AMSTERDAM (noun)
  The noun NEW AMSTERDAM has 1 sense:

1. a settlement established by the Dutch near the mouth of Hudson River and the southern end of Manhattan Island; annexed by the English in 1664 and renamed New York

  Familiarity information: NEW AMSTERDAM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEW AMSTERDAM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A settlement established by the Dutch near the mouth of Hudson River and the southern end of Manhattan Island; annexed by the English in 1664 and renamed New York

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

colony; settlement (a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government)

Holonyms ("New Amsterdam" 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)