QUEENSBORO BRIDGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Queensboro Bridge mean? 

• QUEENSBORO BRIDGE (noun)
  The noun QUEENSBORO BRIDGE has 1 sense:

1. a cantilever bridge across the East River between Manhattan and Queens

  Familiarity information: QUEENSBORO BRIDGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUEENSBORO BRIDGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A cantilever bridge across the East River between Manhattan and Queens

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Instance hypernyms:

cantilever bridge (bridge constructed of two cantilevers that meet in the middle)

Holonyms ("Queensboro Bridge" is a part of...):

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)

 Context examples 

The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)