NEW ENGLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does New England mean? 

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

1. a region of northeastern United States comprising Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont and Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Connecticut

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEW ENGLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A region of northeastern United States comprising Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont and Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Connecticut

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 "New England"):

Rustbelt (urban areas in New England and Midwest characterized by concentrations of declining industries (steel or textiles))

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

Maine; ME; Me.; Pine Tree State (a state in New England)

Bay State; MA; Mass.; Massachusetts; Old Colony; Granite State; N.H.; New Hampshire; NH (a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies)

Little Rhody; Ocean State; R.I.; Rhode Island; RI (a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies; the smallest state)

Green Mountain State; Vermont; VT; Vt. (a state in New England)

Meronyms (members of "New England"):

New Englander; Yankee (an American who lives in New England)

Domain member region:

anadama bread (a yeast-raised bread made of white flour and cornmeal and molasses)

johnny cake; johnnycake; journey cake (cornbread usually cooked pancake-style on a griddle (chiefly New England))

hasty pudding (cornmeal mush served with sweetening (maple syrup or brown sugar))

Holonyms ("New England" 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)

 Context examples 

The study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

(New Genetic Discovery May Eventually End Premature Birth, VOA)

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that genetic testing can determine the likelihood of the cancer returning.

(Study Shows Chemotherapy Not Needed To Treat Many Breast Cancers, Carol Pearson/VOA)

It is committed to providing access to research-based care, advanced technologies, and clinical trials for patients throughout northern New England.

(Norris Cotton Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)

A record of sediment deposits from Cape Cod, Mass., shows evidence that 23 severe hurricanes hit New England between the years 250 and 1150, the equivalent of a severe storm about once every 40 years on average.

(Monster hurricanes struck U.S. Northeast during prehistoric periods of ocean warming, NSF)

The study, led by Dr. Joseph Sparano and published Sunday in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that women who had small tumors that had not spread to the lymph nodes did almost as well with medications as those who received chemotherapy.

(Study: Many Breast Cancer Patients Can Skip Chemo, VOA)

The investigation, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that women who received 2.4 grams of long-chain omega-3 supplements in the last three months of pregnancy reduced their child's risk of asthma by 31 percent.

(Omega-3 Fatty Acids Reduce Asthma Risk in Children by One-Third, VOA)

While the prevalence of allergy to alpha-gal, or alpha-gal syndrome is not known, researchers have observed that it occurs mostly in people living in the Southeast region of the United States and certain areas of New York, New Jersey and New England.

(NIAID scientists link cases of unexplained anaphylaxis to red meat allergy, National Institutes of Health)

Intense hurricanes possibly more powerful than any storms New England has experienced in recorded history frequently pounded the region during the first millennium, from the peak of the Roman Empire to the height of the Middle Ages.

(Monster hurricanes struck U.S. Northeast during prehistoric periods of ocean warming, NSF)