NJ

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does NJ mean? 

• NJ (noun)
  The noun NJ has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: NJ used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NJ (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Garden State; Jersey; N.J.; New Jersey; NJ

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "NJ"):

Delaware Bay (an inlet of the North Atlantic; fed by the Delaware River)

Ellis Island (an island in New York Bay that was formerly the principal immigration station for the United States)

Cape May (a cape of southeast New Jersey extending into the Atlantic Ocean)

Princeton (a university town in central New Jersey)

Paterson (a city of northeastern New Jersey)

New Brunswick (a university town in central New Jersey)

Newark (the largest city in New Jersey; located in northeastern New Jersey)

Morristown (a town in northern New Jersey where the Continental Army spent two winters)

Jersey City (a city in northeastern New Jersey (opposite Manhattan))

Camden (a city in southwestern New Jersey on the Delaware River near Philadelphia)

Bayonne (a city in northeastern New Jersey)

capital of New Jersey; Trenton (capital of the state of New Jersey; located in western New Jersey on the Delaware river)

Atlantic City (a city on the Atlantic shore in southeastern New Jersey; a resort and gambling center)

Domain member region:

Battle of Monmouth; Battle of Monmouth Court House; Monmouth Court House (a pitched battle in New Jersey during the American Revolution (1778) that ended with the withdrawal of British forces)

Holonyms ("NJ" 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)