NEW YORK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does New York mean? 

• NEW YORK (noun)
  The noun NEW YORK has 3 senses:

1. 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

2. a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies

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

  Familiarity information: NEW YORK used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEW YORK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Greater New York; New York; New York City

Instance hypernyms:

point of entry; port of entry (a port in the United States where customs officials are stationed to oversee the entry and exit of people and merchandise)

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

Meronyms (parts of "New York"):

New Amsterdam (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)

Bronx; Brooklyn (a borough of New York City)

Manhattan (one of the five boroughs of New York City)

Greenwich Village; Village (a mainly residential district of Manhattan; 'the Village' became a home for many writers and artists in the 20th century)

Queens; Staten Island (a borough of New York City)

East River (a tidal strait separating Manhattan and the Bronx from Queens and Brooklyn)

Harlem River (a channel separating Manhattan from the Bronx)

Verrazano Narrows (a narrow channel of water separating Staten Island and Brooklyn)

New York Bay (a bay of the North Atlantic; fed by the Hudson River)

Manhattan Island (an island at the north end of New York Bay where the borough of Manhattan is located)

ground zero (the site of the World Trade Center before it was destroyed)

twin towers; World Trade Center; WTC (twin skyscrapers 110 stories high in New York City; built 1368 feet tall in 1970 to 1973; destroyed by a terrorist attack on September 11, 2001)

Verrazano-Narrows Bridge (a suspension bridge across the Verrazano Narrows between Brooklyn and Staten Island)

Queensboro Bridge (a cantilever bridge across the East River between Manhattan and Queens)

George Washington Bridge (a suspension bridge across the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey)

Empire State Building (a skyscraper built in New York City in 1931; 1250 feet tall)

Cooper Union; Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (university founded in 1859 by Peter Cooper to offer free courses in the arts and sciences)

Columbia; Columbia University (a university in New York City)

Brooklyn Bridge (a suspension bridge across the East River in New York City; opened in 1883)

Bronx-Whitestone Bridge (a suspension bridge across the East River in New York City)

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

Empire State; N.Y.; New York; New York State; NY (a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Empire State; N.Y.; New York; New York State; NY

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "New York"):

Catskill Mountains; Catskills (a range of the Appalachians to the west of the Hudson in southeastern New York; includes many popular resort areas)

Rochester (a city in western New York; a center of the photographic equipment industry)

Schenectady (a city of eastern New York on the Mohawk river; it prospered after the opening of the Erie Canal)

Syracuse; Utica (a city in central New York)

Saratoga Springs (a town in eastern New York State famed for its spa and its horse racing)

Watertown (a town in northern New York)

Adirondack Mountains; Adirondacks (a mountain range in northeastern New York State; a popular resort area)

Allegheny; Allegheny River (a river that rises in Pennsylvania and flows north into New York and then back south through Pennsylvania again to join the Monongahela River at Pittsburgh which is the beginning of the Ohio River)

American Falls (a part of Niagara Falls in western New York (north of Buffalo))

Cornell University (a university in Ithaca, New York)

Delaware; Delaware River (a river that rises in the Catskills in southeastern New York and flows southward along the border of Pennsylvania with New York and New Jersey to northern Delaware where it empties into Delaware Bay)

Hudson; Hudson River (a New York river; flows southward into New York Bay; explored by Henry Hudson early in the 17th century)

Champlain; Lake Champlain (a lake in northeastern New York, northwestern Vermont and southern Quebec; site of many battles in the French and Indian War and in the American Revolution and in the War of 1812)

Mohawk River (a river of central New York that flows southeastward to the Hudson River)

Niagara; Niagara Falls (waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls; in the United States it is the American Falls)

Susquehanna; Susquehanna River (a river in the northeastern United States that rises in New York and flows southward through Pennsylvania and Maryland into Chesapeake Bay)

Taconic Mountains (a range of the Appalachian Mountains along the eastern border of New York with Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont)

Newburgh (a town on the Hudson River in New York; in 1782 and 1783 it was George Washington's headquarters)

Niagara Falls (a city in western New York State at the falls of the Niagara river; tourist attraction and honeymoon resort)

Tappan Zee Bridge (a cantilever bridge across the Hudson River)

Bedloe's Island; Liberty Island (an island in New York Bay to the southwest of Manhattan where the Statue of Liberty stands)

New Netherland (a Dutch colony in North America along the Hudson and lower Delaware rivers although the colony centered in New Amsterdam; annexed by the English in 1664)

Albany; capital of New York (state capital of New York; located in eastern New York State on the west bank of the Hudson river)

Buffalo (a city on Lake Erie in western New York (near Niagara Falls))

Cooperstown (a small town in east central New York; site of the National Baseball Hall of Fame)

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)

Ithaca (a college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga)

West Point (United States Army installation on the west bank of Hudson river to the north of New York City; site of United States Military Academy)

Long Island (an island in southeastern New York; Brooklyn and Queens are on its western end)

Binghamton (a city in south central New York near the border with Pennsylvania)

Kingston (a town on the Hudson River in New York)

Erie Canal (an artificial waterway connecting the Hudson river at Albany with Lake Erie at Buffalo; built in the 19th century; now part of the New York State Barge Canal)

Domain member region:

battle of Saratoga; Saratoga (a battle during the American Revolution (1777); the British under Burgoyne were defeated)

Holonyms ("New York" 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)

Mid-Atlantic states (a region of the eastern United States comprising New York and New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Delaware and Maryland)

Sense 3

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)

Domain member region:

Fort Ticonderoga; Ticonderoga (a pitched battle in which American revolutionary troops captured Fort Ticonderoga from the British in 1775)

 Context examples 

More than 1,500 people died when the vessel sank partway between Southampton, England and New York, United States.

(UK documentary claims fire weakened RMS Titanic, Wikinews)

Also, watch March 16 (after 12:25 PM EDT New York), when Mars in Capricorn at 19 degrees will be at the same degree in the opposite sign of the January 10 Cancer eclipse.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It was short and thin, and outside was printed the address of The New York Outview.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The impact is tremendous,'' said Sparano, of Montefiore Medical Center in New York.

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

It took down Dyn clients, including several popular websites such as Twitter, Netflix, Spotify, Reddit, New York Times, and Wired.

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

The two most severe classes of cardiac dysfunction according to a classification system developed by the New York Heart Association to grade cardiovascular function and disability.

(New York Heart Association Class III/IV, NCI Thesaurus)

Terminology associated with the New York Heart Association class responses codelist of the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).

(CDISC SDTM New York Heart Association Class Responses Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

I tracked him over from New York, and I’ve been close to him for a week in London, waiting some excuse to get my hand on his collar.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Sorry you could find nothing better to read. I write that rubbish because it sells, and ordinary people like it. Are you going to New York this winter?"

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I therefore cabled to my friend, Wilson Hargreave, of the New York Police Bureau, who has more than once made use of my knowledge of London crime.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)