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NEWARK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Newark mean?
• NEWARK (noun)
The noun NEWARK has 1 sense:
1. the largest city in New Jersey; located in northeastern New Jersey
Familiarity information: NEWARK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The largest city in New Jersey; located in northeastern New Jersey
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)
Holonyms ("Newark" is a part of...):
Garden State; Jersey; N.J.; New Jersey; NJ (a Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic; one of the original 13 colonies)
Context examples
About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a small purchase of land, with a convenient house, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire, his native country; where he now lives retired, yet in good esteem among his neighbours.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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