NEW HAVEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does New Haven mean? 

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

1. a city in southwestern Connecticut; site of Yale University

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEW HAVEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in southwestern Connecticut; site of Yale University

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

Meronyms (parts of "New Haven"):

Yale; Yale University (a university in Connecticut)

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

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

 Context examples 

"We really hadn't seen a formation process that could create things that are this dense," explained Erica Nelson of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, lead author of the study.

(Telescopes Uncover Early Construction of Giant Galaxy, NASA)

Investigators at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut, and their collaborators discovered a subtype of T cell (link is external)s—called T follicular helper cell 13, or Tfh13 cells — in laboratory mice bred to have a rare genetic immune disease called DOCK8 immunodeficiency syndrome.

(Scientists discover immune cell subtype in mice that drives allergic reactions, National Institutes of Health)

He had changed since his New Haven years.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

I graduated from New Haven in 1915, just a quarter of a century after my father, and a little later I participated in that delayed Teutonic migration known as the Great War.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

A pause. Then Tom's voice, incredulous and insulting: You must have gone there about the time Biloxi went to New Haven.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven—a national figure in a way, one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed. There was a touch of paternal contempt in it, even toward people he liked—and there were men at New Haven who had hated his guts.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)