NEW HAMPSHIRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does New Hampshire mean? 

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

1. a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies

2. one of the British colonies that formed the United States

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEW HAMPSHIRE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Granite State; N.H.; New Hampshire; NH

Instance hypernyms:

American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "New Hampshire"):

Dartmouth; Dartmouth College (a college in New Hampshire)

capital of New Hampshire; Concord (capital of the state of New Hampshire; located in south central New Hampshire on the Merrimack river)

Manchester (largest city in New Hampshire; located in southeastern New Hampshire on the Merrimack river)

Portsmouth (a port town in southeastern New Hampshire on the Atlantic Ocean)

Merrimack; Merrimack River (a river that rises in south central New Hampshire and flows through Concord and Manchester into Massachusetts and empties into the Atlantic Ocean)

Holonyms ("New Hampshire" 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)

New England (a region of northeastern United States comprising Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont and Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Connecticut)

Sense 2

Meaning:

One of the British colonies that formed the United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

Colony (one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States)

 Context examples 

A census region of the United States consisting of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

(Northeastern United States Census Region, NCI Thesaurus)

A census division of the United States consisting of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.

(New England Census Division, NCI Thesaurus)

Dyn's corporate headquarters are in New Hampshire.

(Distributed malware attacks Dyn DNS, takes down websites in US, Wikinews)

"Contrary to popular belief, apologies don't soften the blow of rejections," says Dr. Gili Freedman, lead author of this study, currently based at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA.

(Sometimes You Shouldn't Say Sorry, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)