NEW YORK CITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does New York City mean? 

• NEW YORK CITY (noun)
  The noun NEW YORK CITY has 1 sense:

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEW YORK CITY (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:

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

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)

Meronyms (parts of "New York City"):

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

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

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

Harlem River (a channel separating Manhattan from the Bronx)

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

Staten Island; Queens (a borough 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)

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

Brooklyn; Bronx (a borough of New York City)

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

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)

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

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

 Context examples 

Some communities — most notably New York City — have eliminated the use of trans fats in restaurants and eateries in recent years.

(Trans Fat Bans Lessen Health Risks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The study was carried out at the Montefiore Medical Center emergency room in New York City.

(Study: Common Painkillers as Effective as Opioids in Hospital Emergency Room, VOA)

He told her that he had been sick, but was once more nearly well, and that inside ten days or two weeks (as soon as a letter could travel to New York City and return) he would redeem his clothes and be with her.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I never had a flat salary, which looking back, seems remarkable—I worked completely on commission for 16 years. (I started my website within that period, in the last six of the 16 years, and did both to get the site going—you can’t start a new business and quit your day job.) I was the sole provider for my two daughters, put them through the New York City private school system, then college, and paid all their student loans over the course of seven years myself, with no financial help from their father.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Researchers from Columbia University, New York City, are now able to use induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) to form a model of human adult-like cardiac muscle by introducing electric and mechanical stimulation at an early stage.

(Early stimulation improves performance of bioengineered human heart cells, National Institutes of Health)

The research group, which included experts from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, and Arizona State University, Phoenix, originally set out to find whether drugs used to treat other diseases can be repurposed for treating Alzheimer’s.

(Viruses may play a role in Alzheimer’s disease, National Institutes of Health)

A research team led by David Sulzer, Ph.D., professor of neurology at Columbia University in New York City and Alessandro Sette, Dr.Biol.Sci., professor of infectious diseases at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology in California, examined the role of T cells in Parkinson’s disease (PD).

(Immune system may mount an attack in Parkinson’s disease, National Institutes of Health)

Short distance travel, such as the distance between Ojai and Los Angeles or from the Hamptons and New York City (about 100-200 miles) would be perfect for finding interesting new people, and maybe one or two you’d like to know better in the romantic sense.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)