NEW BRUNSWICK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does New Brunswick mean? 

• NEW BRUNSWICK (noun)
  The noun NEW BRUNSWICK has 2 senses:

1. a university town in central New Jersey

2. a province in southeastern Canada

  Familiarity information: NEW BRUNSWICK used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEW BRUNSWICK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A university town in central New Jersey

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Holonyms ("New Brunswick" is a part of...):

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

A province in southeastern Canada

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

Canadian province (Canada is divided into 12 provinces for administrative purposes)

Meronyms (parts of "New Brunswick"):

Fredericton (the provincial capital of New Brunswick)

Saint John; St. John (a port in eastern Canada; the largest city in New Brunswick)

Saint John; Saint John River; St. John; St. John River (a river that rises in Maine and flows northeastward through New Brunswick to empty into the Bay of Fundy)

Holonyms ("New Brunswick" is a part of...):

Canadian Maritime Provinces; Maritime Provinces; Maritimes (the collective name for the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island)